Soviet design : from constructivism to modernism 1920-1980

Author:

Krasni͡anskai͡a, Kristina

Format:

Book

Language:

English

Imprint:

Zürich : Scheidegger und Spiess, [2020] and ©2020

Subject:

Design - Soviet Union - History - 20th century
Constructivism (Art) - Soviet Union - History
Modernism (Art) - Soviet Union - History

Contributor:

Semenov, Alexander E. (Alexander Evgenʹevich), author
Lodder, Christina, writer of foreword

ISBN:

9783858818461 and 3858818461

Description:

446 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), plans ; 31 cm

Bibliographic Note:

Includes bibliographical references

Contents:

Foreword : Soviet design : the international dimension / Christina Lodder -- Foreword / Kristina Krasnyanskaya -- Foreword : Soviet design in the international context / Elizaveta Likhacheva -- Introduction : what is Soviet design? The value and development of Soviet design in the context of the historical and political situation -- Soviet design of the 1920s. Theory and principles of Soviet design in the 1920s. Art in Production and furniture design -- Principles of furniture design for the new style housing -- Furniture design theory at VKhUTEMAS-VKhUTEIN -- Avant-garde concepts of furniture production: from formalism to rationalism and constructivism. El Lissitzky, Vladimir Tatlin, Nikolai Suetin, Alexander Rodchenko and the other founders of Soviet design. Furniture as art -- Furniture as function -- An integrated approach to the creation of furniture projects -- Furniture design and production in the 1920s. Art in production: education -- Mass production and popularization of new furniture projects: the social context -- Soviet design from the 1930s to the early 1950s -- Theoretical foundations and principles of design: from the 1930s to the early 1950s -- After the avant-garde: mastering the classical heritage -- Art Deco: between constructivism and Soviet Neo-Classicism -- Construction and décor in Soviet Neo-Classicism -- Furniture concepts from post-constructivism to Soviet Neo-Classicism: Boris Iofan, Nikolai Lanceray, Karo Halabyan, Yuri Solovyev and others. Post-Constructivism -- Art Deco in the USSR -- Soviet Neo-Classicism -- Planning and mass design: from the 1930s to the early 1950s. Communication between planner and industry -- Mass production and one-of-a-kind furniture -- Consumer needs and desires -- Soviet design from the late 1950s to the 1980s. Soviet modernism as the last great style in Soviet design. Post-War design and the all-union furniture exhibitions -- The system of furniture design in the USSR -- The golden decade of Soviet interior design. Developing new forms and types of designs for small apartments -- Yuri Sluchevsky and the search for purity of form: modular furniture -- The 1970s-1980s: the new generation of designers. Mass-production furniture of the 1970s and 1980s -- Paper designs and experimental furniture -- Conclusion -- Biographies -- List of sources

Summary:

"The Soviet Union left behind a vast design heritage that is largely unknown in the West. Unlike Soviet-era architecture and graphic design, interior design from this period has not been thoroughly investigated. For the first time, this book offers a comprehensive survey of Soviet interior design from constructivism and the revolutionary avant-garde to late modernism. Based on extensive research and drawing on archives that were inaccessible until recently, Kristina Krasnyanskaya and Alexander Semenov document seven decades of interior design in the Soviet Union. They demonstrate that, while often discredited as monotonous, the work of designers, architects, and manufacturers behind the Iron Curtain, in fact, comprises a remarkable variety of original styles. The 1920s were marked by bold exploration and experimentation at state-run art and technical school Vkhutemas and by overlapping movements such as constructivism, rationalism, and suprematism. The 1930s brought Soviet art deco and Stalinist Empire style, which produced some of the Soviet Union's most iconic buildings. In the late 1950s, after Stalin's death, modernism emerged with functionalist furniture mass-produced to fit small apartments in housing developments. The 1960s marked the Golden Age of Soviet interior design, while most of the visionary work of a new generation of designers in the 1970s remained unrealized. With some four-hundred illustrations and a wealth of previously unpublished material, Soviet Design will become the definitive reference on the subject." -- Provided by publisher

Collection:

BGC Monograph Stacks

Call Number:

NK1456.A1 K73 2020

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