Politics in Color and Concrete: Socialist Materialities and the Middle Class in Hungary

by Krisztina Fehervary

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 025300991X
• ISBN13: 9780253009913
• Release Date: September 2013
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher