Comradely Objects(English, Electronic book text, Karpova Yulia)

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Comradely Objects(English, Electronic book text, Karpova Yulia) is written by Karpova Yulia and published by Manchester University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1526139863 (ISBN 10) and 9781526139863 (ISBN 13).

The Russian avant-garde of the 1920s is broadly recognised to have been Russia's first truly original contribution to world culture. In contrast, Soviet design of the post-war period is often dismissed as hack-work and plagiarism that resulted in a shabby world of commodities. This book offers a new perspective on the history of Soviet design by focusing on the notion of the comradely object as an agent of progressive social relations that state-sponsored Soviet design inherited from the avant-garde. It introduces a shared history of domestic objects, hand-made as well as machine made, mass-produced as well as unique, utilitarian as well as challenging the conventional notion of utility. This is a study of post-avant-garde Russian productivism at the intersection of intellectual history, social history and material culture studies, an account attentive to the complexities and contradictions of Soviet design. An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.