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Landscapes of Communism: A History Through Buildings

Door Owen Hatherley

Categorie	Politiek & Staatsinrichting
Boeknummer	#425389-YD14
Titel	Landscapes of Communism: A History Through Buildings
Auteur	Hatherley, Owen
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover
Uitgeverij	Allen Lane
Jaar van uitgave	2015
ISBN10	1846147689
ISBN13	9781846147685
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	Original pictorial boards, decorated endpapers, illustrated with photographs in b/w, 8vo.
Samenvatting	During the course of the twentieth century, communism took power in Eastern Europe and remade the city in its own image. Ransacking the urban planning of the grand imperial past, it set out to transform everyday life, its sweeping boulevards, epic high-rise and vast housing estates an emphatic declaration of a non-capitalist idea. Now, the regimes that built them are dead and long gone, but from Warsaw to Berlin, Moscow to post-Revolution Kiev, the buildings, their most obvious legacy, remain, populated by people whose lives were scattered and jeopardized by the collapse of communism and the introduction of capitalism. Landscapes of Communismis an intimate history of twentieth-century communist Europe told through its buildings; it is, too, a book about power, and what power does in cities... (Lees verder). In exploring what that power was, Hatherley shows how much we can understand from surfaces - especially in states as obsessed with surface as the Soviets were. Walking through these landscapes today, Hatherley discovers how, in contrast to the common dismissal of 'monolithic' Soviet architecture, these cities reflect with disconcerting transparency the development of an idea over the decades, with its sharp, sudden zigzags of official style- from modernism to classicism and back; the superstitious despotic rococo of high Stalinism, with its jingoistic memorials, palaces and secret policemen's castles; East Germany's obsession with prefabricated concrete panes; and the metro systems of Moscow and Prague, a spectacular vindication of public space that went further than any avant garde ever dared. But most of all, Landscapes of Communismis a revelatory journey of discovery, plunging us into the maelstrom of socialist architecture. As we submerge into the metros, walk the massive, multi-lane magistrale and pause at milk bars in the microrayons, who knows what we might find? 'Reading this book is like a tour of a whole world of unsuspected curiosities and richnesses conducted by a guide whose wit is as refreshing as his knowledge is profound. I loved it, and I'll go back to it again and again.' Philip Pullman'A brave, incisive, elegant and erudite writer.' Will Self'A love letter to eastern Europe . . . Here are all the properties that have made him one of the most distinctive writers in England - acuity, contrariness, observational rigour, frankness and beautifully wrought prose.' Jonathan Meades
Pagina's	612
Conditie	Goed — Slight wear top and bottom edge spine.
Prijs	€ 15,00

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