Bibliograph

Politics in color and concrete, socialist materialities and the middle class in Hungary, Krisztina Fehérváry

Type

Label

Politics in color and concrete, socialist materialities and the middle class in Hungary, Krisztina Fehérváry

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Politics in color and concrete

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Krisztina Fehérváry

Series statement

New anthropologies of Europe

Sub title

socialist materialities and the middle class in Hungary

Summary

Material culture in Eastern Europe under state socialism is remembered as uniformly gray, shabby, and monotonous-the worst of postwar modernist architecture and design. Politics in Color and Concrete revisits this history by exploring domestic space in Hungary from the 1950s through the 1990s and reconstructs the multi-textured and politicized aesthetics of daily life through the objects, spaces, and colors that made up this lived environment. Krisztina Féherváry shows that contemporary standards of living and ideas about normalcy have roots in late socialist consumer culture and are not merely products of postsocialist transitions or neoliberalism. This engaging study decenters conventional perspectives on consumer capitalism, home ownership, and citizenship in the new Europe

Target audience

adult

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