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  1. Politics in Color and Concrete
    Socialist Materialities and the Middle Class in Hungary
    Author: Fehérváry, Krisztina
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Indiana University Press, Bloomington

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 025300991X; 0253009944; 0253009960; 9780253009913; 9780253009944; 9780253009968
    Series: New anthropologies of Europe
    Subjects: Consumption (Economics) / Political aspects / Hungary; Material culture / Political aspects / Hungary; Middle class / Hungary; Post-communism / Hungary; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Politik; Material culture; Consumption (Economics); Middle class; Post-communism; Sachkultur; Verbraucherverhalten; Ästhetik; Mittelstand; Sozialismus
    Scope: 1 online resource (322 pages)
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    Print version record. - IndexAbout the Author

    Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Qualities of Color and Concrete; 1: Normal Life in the Former Socialist City; 2: Socialist Realism in the Socialist City; 3: Socialist Modern and the Production of Demanding Citizens; 4: Socialist Generic and the Branding of State Socialism; 5: Organicist Modern and Super-Natural Organicism; 6: Unstable Landscapes of Property, Morality, and Status; 7: The New Family House and the New Middle Class; 8: Heterotopias of the Normal in Private Worlds; Epilogue; Notes; Bibliography

    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 me
  2. Politics in color and concrete
    socialist materialities and the middle class in Hungary
    Author: Fehérváry, Krisztina
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Indiana University Press, Bloomington

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9780253009968
    RVK Categories: LB 45275 ; LC 10275
    Subjects: Politik; Material culture; Consumption (Economics); Middle class; Post-communism; Sozialismus; Mittelstand; Verbraucherverhalten; Sachkultur; Ästhetik
    Scope: xv, 288 p.
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Introduction: the qualities of color and concrete -- Normal life in the former socialist city -- Socialist realism in the socialist city -- Socialist modern and the production of demanding citizens -- Socialist generic and the branding of state socialism -- Organicist modern and super-natural organicism -- Unstable landscapes of property, morality, and status -- The new family house and the new middle class -- Heterotopias of the normal in private worlds -- Epilogue