Politics in Color and Concrete Socialist Materialities and the Middle Class in Hungary

Name: Politics in Color and Concrete Socialist Materialities and the Middle Class in Hungary
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ISBN: 9780253009944

ISBN-10: 0253009944

ISBN-13: 9780253009944

Edition: 2013

Authors: Krisztina Fehï¿½rvï¿½ry, Krisztina Fehï¿½rvï¿½ry

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Material culture in Eastern Europe under state socialism is remembered as uniformly gray, shabby, and monotonous--the worst of postwar modernist architecture and design. Politics in Color and Concrete revisits this history by exploring domestic space in Hungary from the 1950s through the 1990s and reconstructs the multi-textured and politicized aesthetics of daily life through the objects, spaces, and colors that made up this lived environment. Krisztina Féherváry shows that contemporary standards of living and ideas about normalcy have roots in late socialist consumer culture and are not merely products of postsocialist transitions or neoliberalism. This engaging study decenters…

Book details

List price: $15.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 9/16/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 312
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments


Introduction: The Qualities of Color and Concrete



Normal Life in the Former Socialist City



Socialist Realism in the Socialist City



Socialist Modern and the Production of Demanding Citizens



Socialist Generic and the Branding of State Socialism



Organicist Modern and Super-Natural Organicism



Unstable Landscapes of Property, Morality, and Status



The New Family House and the New Middle Class



Heterotopias of the Normal in Private Worlds


Epilogue


Notes


Bibliography


Index