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035 $a(OCoLC)1063669845
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050 4 $aNA1188$b.B78 2018
082 04 $a720.94709045$223
245 00 $aBrutal Bloc :$bSoviet era postcards from the Eastern Bloc /$cdesigned and edited by Murray & Sorrell FUEL.
246 3 $aSoviet era postcards from the Eastern Bloc
264 1 $aLondon :$bFUEL Design & Publishing,$c2018.
300 $a191 pages :$bchiefly color illustrations ;$c17 x 21 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
336 $astill image$bsti$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
520 8 $aBrutal concrete hotels, futurist TV towers, heroic statues of workers--this collection of Soviet-era postcards documents the uncompromising landscape of the Eastern Bloc through its buildings and monuments. These are interspersed with quotes from prominent figures of the time, which both support and confound the ideologies presented in the images.0In contrast to the photographs of a ruined and abandoned Soviet empire we are accustomed to seeing today, the scenes depicted here publicize the bright future of communism: social housing blocks, palaces of culture and monuments to comradeship. Dating from the 1960s to the 1980s, they offer a nostalgic yet revealing insight into social and architectural values of the time, acting as a window through which we can examine cars, people and, of course, buildings. These postcards, sanctioned by the authorities, were intended to show the world what living in communism looked like.0Instead, this postcard propaganda inadvertently communicates other messages: outside the House of Political Enlightenment in Yerevan, the flowerbed reads "Glory to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union"; in Novopolotsk, art-school pupils paint plein air, their subject a housing estate; at the Irkutsk Polytechnic Institute students stroll past a 16-foot-tall concrete hammer and sickle. These postcards are at once sinister, funny, poignant and surreal.
650 0 $aArchitecture$zSoviet Union$vPictorial works.
650 0 $aBrutalism (Architecture)$zSoviet Union$vPictorial works.
650 0 $aPostcards$zSoviet Union$xHistory$y20th century.
700 1 $aMurray, Damon,$eeditor.
700 1 $aSorrell, Stephen,$eeditor.
852 00 $boff,ave$hNA1188$i.B78 2018g