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The word “ostalgie” emerged in Germany in the 1990s to describe a then-burgeoning nostalgia for the era prior to the collapse of the Communist Bloc and the breaking up of countries formerly united under Communist government. Ostalgia looks at the art produced in these countries--some of which did not even formally exist two decades ago--bringing together the work of more(...)
March 2012
Ostalgia
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The word “ostalgie” emerged in Germany in the 1990s to describe a then-burgeoning nostalgia for the era prior to the collapse of the Communist Bloc and the breaking up of countries formerly united under Communist government. Ostalgia looks at the art produced in these countries--some of which did not even formally exist two decades ago--bringing together the work of more than 50 artists from 20 countries across Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Republics. Many of these works, by seminal figures and younger artists alike, offer a series of reportages on life and art under Communism and in the new post-Soviet countries. Eschewing a chronological perspective, this piblication instead establishes a series of dialogues between different generations and geographies, revealing local avant-garde practices and highlighting their international affinities. Among the artists included are Victor Alimpiev, Said Atabekov, Miroslav Balka, Irina Botea, Erik Bulatov, André Cadere, Stanislav Filko, Sanja Ivekovic, Jiri Kovanda, Edward Krasinski, Jonas Mekas, Boris Mikhailov, Paulina Olowska, Roman Ondák, Helga Paris, Dmitri Prigov, Anri Sala, Andro Wekua and Anna Zemánková.
Modern Berlin Map
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''Modern Berlin map'' includes a map, an introduction to Berlin’s 20th century architecture by Matthew Tempest, photographs by Simon Phipps and details of fifty buildings representing the city’s remarkable array of styles: Expressionist, Bauhaus, Fascist, Soviet Realist, Modernist, Brutalist, Post-Modernist and more. Perfect for a walking tour or framing, this map(...)
Modern Berlin Map
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''Modern Berlin map'' includes a map, an introduction to Berlin’s 20th century architecture by Matthew Tempest, photographs by Simon Phipps and details of fifty buildings representing the city’s remarkable array of styles: Expressionist, Bauhaus, Fascist, Soviet Realist, Modernist, Brutalist, Post-Modernist and more. Perfect for a walking tour or framing, this map measures slightly larger than A2 open, folds to slightly larger than A5 and is protected by a wide band.
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Brodsky & Utkin
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From 1978 to 1993, the renowned Soviet "paper architects" Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin created an incredible collection of elaborate etchings depicting outlandish, often impossible, buildings and cityscapes.Brodsky & Utkin presents the sum of the architects' collaborative prints and adds new material, including an updated preface by the artists' gallery(...)
Brodsky & Utkin
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From 1978 to 1993, the renowned Soviet "paper architects" Alexander Brodsky and Ilya Utkin created an incredible collection of elaborate etchings depicting outlandish, often impossible, buildings and cityscapes.Brodsky & Utkin presents the sum of the architects' collaborative prints and adds new material, including an updated preface by the artists' gallery representative, Ron Feldman, a new introductory essay by architect Aleksandr Mergold, visual documentation of the duo's installation work, and rare personal photographs.
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March 2015
Architecture Monographs
Anti-shows: Aptart 1982-84
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A collective of artists, a gallery and a movement, APTART was a series of self-organized “anti-shows” that took place in a private apartment and outdoor spaces in Moscow between 1982 and 1984. These covert and anarchic actions, which soon came into conflict with the Soviet authorities, represented a collective attempt to rethink the politics of exhibition-making and the(...)
Anti-shows: Aptart 1982-84
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A collective of artists, a gallery and a movement, APTART was a series of self-organized “anti-shows” that took place in a private apartment and outdoor spaces in Moscow between 1982 and 1984. These covert and anarchic actions, which soon came into conflict with the Soviet authorities, represented a collective attempt to rethink the politics of exhibition-making and the making of a public in the absence of a public sphere.
Art Theory
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Inside the Rainbow reprints for the first time in English a unique compendium of Soviet-era picture books from the 1920s and 1930s—a high point in the history of children's literature. In the dark and dangerous world of revolutionary Petrograd, some of the greatest Russian poets and artists of the century came together to create a new kind of book for children, one that(...)
Inside the rainbow: Russian children's literature 1920-35, beautiful books, terrible times
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Inside the Rainbow reprints for the first time in English a unique compendium of Soviet-era picture books from the 1920s and 1930s—a high point in the history of children's literature. In the dark and dangerous world of revolutionary Petrograd, some of the greatest Russian poets and artists of the century came together to create a new kind of book for children, one that reflected the endless possibilities of a brave new world.
Book Design
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Between 1917 and 1945, a tide of hyperindustrialization washed over the United States and the Soviet Union. While the two countries remained ideologically opposed, the factories that amassed in Stalingrad, Moscow, Detroit, Buffalo, and Cleveland were strikingly similar, as were the new forms of modern work and urban and infrastructural development that supported this(...)
Architectural Theory
September 2023
Detroit-Moscow-Detroit: An architecture for industrialization, 1917-1945
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Between 1917 and 1945, a tide of hyperindustrialization washed over the United States and the Soviet Union. While the two countries remained ideologically opposed, the factories that amassed in Stalingrad, Moscow, Detroit, Buffalo, and Cleveland were strikingly similar, as were the new forms of modern work and urban and infrastructural development that supported this industrialization. Drawing on previously unknown archival materials and photographs, the essays in ''Detroit-Moscow-Detroit'' document a stunning two-way transfer of technical knowledge between the United States and the USSR that greatly influenced the built environment in both countries, upgrading each to major industrial power by the start of the Second World War. The innovative research presented here explores spatial development, manufacturing, mass production, and organizational planning across geopolitical lines to demonstrate that capitalist and communist built environments in the twentieth century were not diametrically opposed and were, on certain sites, coproduced in a period of intense technical exchange between the two world wars. A fresh account of the effects of industrialization and globalization on US and Soviet cultures, architecture, and urban history, ''Detroit-Moscow-Detroit'' will find wide readership among architects, urban designers, and scholars of architectural, urban, and twentieth-century history.
Architectural Theory
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Once described as “Italy gone Marxist,” Georgia, located in both an advantageous and vulnerable geopolitical position between the Black Sea, Russia, Central Asia, and the Middle East, enjoys a Mediterranean climate and viniculture in combination with a community-oriented and self-determined spirit. Taking the exhibition “Frozen Moments: Architecture Speaks Back” (2010) as(...)
Ministry of Highways : a guide to the performative architecture of Tbilisi
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Once described as “Italy gone Marxist,” Georgia, located in both an advantageous and vulnerable geopolitical position between the Black Sea, Russia, Central Asia, and the Middle East, enjoys a Mediterranean climate and viniculture in combination with a community-oriented and self-determined spirit. Taking the exhibition “Frozen Moments: Architecture Speaks Back” (2010) as its starting point, this guidebook maps the social, urban, and art discourses of the country’s post-Soviet years as seen from its hilly capital of Tbilisi.
Modernism
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À la mort de Lénine en 1924, les mouvements de l'avant-garde architecturale, dont le constructivisme, vibrent à l'unisson de la Révolution de 1917. Depuis 1921, ils apportent leur écot à la Nouvelle Politique Économique, au Plan d'électrification de l'URSS et essayent de définir une « esthétique communiste » au service du prolétaire et de la kolkhozienne. L'Union(...)
November 2012
Le prix de Rome : le 'grand tour' des architectes soviétiques sous Mussolini
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À la mort de Lénine en 1924, les mouvements de l'avant-garde architecturale, dont le constructivisme, vibrent à l'unisson de la Révolution de 1917. Depuis 1921, ils apportent leur écot à la Nouvelle Politique Économique, au Plan d'électrification de l'URSS et essayent de définir une « esthétique communiste » au service du prolétaire et de la kolkhozienne. L'Union Soviétique, l'Allemagne et les États-Unis forment alors la troïka de l'Internationale moderniste. Le premier plan quinquennal est lancé en 1928. Villes nouvelles et chantiers industriels tournent à plein régime. Davantage préoccupé par ces grands chantiers, Staline semble se désintéresser de l'enjeu architectural. Pourtant, à partir du concours pour le Palais des Soviets (1932) et de l'adoption du Plan Général de reconstruction de Moscou (1935), la Rome éternelle va devenir, au prix d'un face-à-face avec l'Italie fasciste, un « modèle » de réalisme socialiste inattendu...
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This captivating survey of Soviet design from 1950 to 1989 features more than 350 items from the Moscow Design Museum's unique collection. From children's toys, homewares, and fashion to posters, electronics, and space-race ephemera, each object reveals something of life in a planned economy during a fascinating time in Russia's history. Organized into three chapters -(...)
April 2018
Designed in the USSR: 1950-1989
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This captivating survey of Soviet design from 1950 to 1989 features more than 350 items from the Moscow Design Museum's unique collection. From children's toys, homewares, and fashion to posters, electronics, and space-race ephemera, each object reveals something of life in a planned economy during a fascinating time in Russia's history. Organized into three chapters - Citizen, State, and World - the book is a micro-to-macro tour of the functional, kitsch, politicized, and often avant-garde designs from this largely undocumented period.
Constructivist Moscow Map
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This two-sided, dual language, folding map features over fifty leading examples of Constructivist architecture in Moscow, from Melnikov House and Shukhov Tower to the Narkomfin and Izvestia Buildings. The map celebrates the avant garde landmarks of the early Soviet era, including workers' clubs, garages, communal housing, factories, headquarters and more. The reverse side(...)
Constructivist Moscow Map
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This two-sided, dual language, folding map features over fifty leading examples of Constructivist architecture in Moscow, from Melnikov House and Shukhov Tower to the Narkomfin and Izvestia Buildings. The map celebrates the avant garde landmarks of the early Soviet era, including workers' clubs, garages, communal housing, factories, headquarters and more. The reverse side of the map features an introduction to Constructivism by Natalia Melikova and Nikolai Vassiliev, photos by Melikova and details about each building in English and Russian.
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