The Future under Communism
ed. by Lukasz Ronduda, Alex Farquharson, Barbara Piwowarska ; wroters Georg Schöllhammer, Owen Hatherly, Boris Groys ...[et al.]
- Author(s)
- Georg Schöllhammer, Owen Hatherly, Boris Groys, ...[et al.]
- Editor(s)
- Lukasz Ronduda, Alex Farquharson, Barbara Piwowarska
- Publication, year
- Warsaw ; Nottingham, Vienna : MAMMAL Foundation : Nottingham Contemporary : tranzit.at., 2010
- Scope
- 304 Pages, illustrated, 22 cm.
- ISBN
- 9788362128044
Star City revisits how the future was experienced and imagined under Communism through the works and words of artists, designers and writers. It concentrates on the interaction of three timeframes: our own post-communist era, the Khrushchev Thaw of the late ‘50s and early ‘60s, and the Soviet avant-garde of the Revolutionary period. It is also evoked via allusions to the utopian, religious and scientific thought of the Russian Cosmists of the 19th and early-20th Century. Without reference to Cosmism it is impossible to fully understand the science fiction and avant-garde art of 1910s and ‘20s, or the quasi-religious significance that venturing into space reresented for Soviet subjects into the 1960s.
- Location
- Cabinet 29 - 1: Expanded Space ; Global Art ; diverse locaties
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