Description: Architecture and Ideology in Eastern Europe during the Stalin Era. An Aspect of Cold War History. Anders Aman. Hardcover with dust jacket. MIT Press. First edition 1992. 286 pages. 9.75" x 9". ISBN 0262011301.Good++ condition. The binding is tight. The pages are clean, no markings, no creasing or tears. The boards are clean, no wear. The dust jacket is clean, very minimal wear. The only issue is approximately 2" x 0.675" area of bleeding from lower outer corner of back board to the dust jacket. The page block is unaffected. See pics.Free domestic shipping USPS Media Mail. Anders Åman has been researching, photographing, and documenting the architectural style known as Socialist Realism. In the midst of the current statue toppling, this book records in over 200 illustrations the government-planned buildings, cities, parks, and monuments from the Stalinist postwar period in Eastern Europe, providing a valuable record and analysis of the relation between architecture and the state in Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, and former East Germany.Very little has been written on architecture and politics during the Cold War period for any country, and next to nothing is known about the architecture, or about state policies reflected in the architecture, of Eastern Europe. Åman not only illuminates these issues but also reveals the influence they had on the course of architectural history in the West.Following an overview of the Stalinist era and the ideological spread of Socialist Realism, Åman investigates several buildings in detail monumental structures such as the Palace of Culture in Warsaw and Stalinallee in East Berlin - and the socialist cities of Stalinstadt, Nowa Huta, Sztálinváros, and Dimitrovgrad. Sketching the lives of eight selected architects, he illuminates how their profession was affected by Socialist Realism. Western critics usually dismiss the architecture of the Stalin-era Soviet bloc, executed in the style known as socialist realism, as aesthetic totalitarianism or as embarrassing anachronisms. Aman, an art professor in Sweden, argues rather that socialist realist architects of East Germany, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania and Bulgaria drew on their respective national traditions to create hybrid forms that often differed markedly from Soviet architecture. Decked out with 253 illustrations, this illuminating study focuses on such projects as Bucharest's enormous, Byzantine-arched Casa Scinteii and Warsaw's Palace of Culture, which many Poles despise as a symbol of Soviet domination. Aman profiles architects who strove for originality despite government restrictions. He draws interesting parallels between Soviet-bloc architecture and socialist realist paintings, which adhered to a hierarchy of subjects and themes.
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Book Title: Architecture & Ideology in Eastern Europe During the Stalin Era
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Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Publisher: The MIT Press
Original Language: Swedish
Item Length: 9.75 in
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Edition: First Edition
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Publication Year: 1992
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 9 in
Author: Anders Aman
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Features: Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Genre: Art & Culture, Business, Economics & Industry, Engineering & Technology, History, Politics & Society, Architecture
Topic: Architectural Photography, Architecture, Art History, Building, Cold War, Construction, Cultural History, Eastern European History, Political Ideologies, Popular Culture, Revolution Architecture, Social History, Stalinist Era
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 40 oz
Item Width: 1 in
Number of Pages: 286
