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Reid, Patty

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“…143 However, as viewers and design professionals themselves complained, the majority of the exhibits were still unique objects rather than samples of already mass-produced goods. 144 While a newsreel about the exhibition in 1962 presented the visitors' criticisms as minor and stemming from a general curiosity and excitement with the new, 145 the responses in guest books, as Susan Reid demonstrated in her study, 146 were far from uniformly enthusiastic. Evidently, taste hierarchies as imagined by design professionals (socialist honesty vs. petty-bourgeois excess and/or capitalist ultrafashionable functionalism) could hardly reflect social reality.…”

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The aesthetic turn after Stalin

Karpova¹

2020

Comradely Objects

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InOctober1967readersofthejournalDekorativnoe Iskusstvo SSSR were probably surprised to find that the latest issue lacked its usual table of contents and was mostly devoid of text. Instead, they were confronted withforty-fivepagesofhigh-qualitycolourandblack-and-whiteimagesof objectsproducedintheSovietUnionoverthepastfivedecadessinceits founding.Thisishowthejournal'seditors-madeupofdecorativeartists, designers,criticsandphilosophers-chosetocelebratethejubileeofthe OctoberRevolution,joiningthechorusoffestivitiesorganisedalloverthe country in 1967. The editorial, appropriately entitled 'Glory to the 50th AnniversaryoftheGreatOctoberSocialistRevolution',explainedthatthey wantedto'givethefloortothewordlessyeteloquentwitnessestoourhistory,theproductsofthecreativespiritofartists'. 1 Thefollowingpagescontainednotext,onlytheimagesofthe'witnesses': monuments to the Soviet Constitution, Karl Marx and Jean-Paul Marat, built in 1918-19 in Moscow according to the Lenin Plan of Monumental Propaganda; a 1920 porcelain saucer, 'Red Baltic Fleet', decorated with thefigureofarevolutionarysailor;the1935post-constructivistpavilionof theMoscowmetrostationRedGatesbytheavant-gardearchitectNikolai Ladovskii;anensembleoftraditionalclaytoysproducedbyTajik,Uzbekand Russiancraftsmenin1960-61;the1967memorialtothevictimsofNazism onthesiteofthelabourcampSalaspils(Latvia);a1967pulegoso 2 glassvase madebyMoscowartists;aselectionoflate1920stextilepatternswithindustrialmotifs;theinterioroftheSovietPavilionatExpo1967inMontreal;a decorativepaintingofapeacockbyavillagecraftsmanfromtheKievregion; therecentlyfinishedhigh-risebuildingoftheCOMECONheadquarterson NewArbatStreetinMoscow;andmanymore(plate1).Thegalleryconcludedwithablack-and-whitephotoofa1920sstatueofLenininBatumi, Georgia,resolutelyfacingtheoppositepage,colouredapure,simplered.

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The aesthetic turn after Stalin

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2020

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