Free Download Danilo Udovicki-Selb, "Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes: Architecture and Stalin’s Revolution from Above, 1928-1938"
English | ISBN: 1474299865 | 2020 | 264 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Conventional readings of the history of Soviet art and architecture show modernist utopian aspirations as all but prohibited by 1932 under Stalin’s totalitarianism. Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes challenges that view. Radically redefining the historiography of the period, it reveals how the relationship between the Party and practicing architects was much more complex and contradictory than previously believed, and shows, in contrast to the conventional scholarly narrative, how the architectural avant-garde was able to persist at a time when it is widely considered to have been driven underground.