03213nam 2200685 a 450 991081825850332120240314030417.00-253-00996-0(CKB)2550000001109028(EBL)1337887(OCoLC)855505479(SSID)ssj0000954771(PQKBManifestationID)11484822(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000954771(PQKBWorkID)10942659(PQKB)11011551(MiAaPQ)EBC1337887(MdBmJHUP)muse30286(Au-PeEL)EBL1337887(CaPaEBR)ebr10744823(CaONFJC)MIL509115(EXLCZ)99255000000110902820130318d2013 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrPolitics in color and concrete socialist materialities and the middle class in Hungary /Krisztina Fehérváry1st ed.Bloomington Indiana University Press20131 online resource (322 p.)New anthropologies of EuropeDescription based upon print version of record.0-253-00991-X 1-299-77864-X 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.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 1950's through the 1990's 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 meNew Anthropologies of EuropeMaterial culturePolitical aspectsHungaryConsumption (Economics)Political aspectsHungaryMiddle classHungaryPost-communismHungaryHungarySocial conditionsHungaryEconomic conditionsHungaryCivilizationMaterial culturePolitical aspectsConsumption (Economics)Political aspectsMiddle classPost-communism306.09439Fehérváry Krisztina1631160MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910818258503321Politics in color and concrete3969841UNINA