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03998aam a2200541Ii 4500 001 F3C0D7D0101A11EA8DA14E4D97128E48 003 SILO 005 20191126010151 008 180611s2018 enka 000 0 eng d 010 $a 2018400712 020 $a 0995745528 020 $a 9780995745520 035 $a (OCoLC)1039948200 040 $a ERASA $b eng $e rda $c ERASA $d YDX $d NGA $d OCLCF $d CUS $d CUY $d DLC $d OCL $d CHVBK $d OCLCO $d AU@ $d CNCCA $d UtOrBLW $d SILO 043 $a ee----- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/ee $a ee----- $0 http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/geographicAreas/ee 050 4 $a NA1188 $b .B78 2018 $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/classification/N 082 04 $a 720.94709045 $2 23 245 00 $a Brutal Bloc post cards / $c designed and edited by Murray & Sorrell FUEL. 246 15 $a Soviet era postcards from the Eastern Bloc 264 1 $a London : $b FUEL Design & Publishing, $c 2018. 300 $a 191 pages : $b chiefly color illustrations ; $c 17 x 21 cm 520 8 $a Brutal concrete hotels, futurist TV towers, heroic statues of workers--this collection of Soviet-era postcards documents the uncompromising landscape of the Eastern Bloc through its buildings and monuments. These are interspersed with quotes from prominent figures of the time, which both support and confound the ideologies presented in the images. In contrast to the photographs of a ruined and abandoned Soviet empire we are accustomed to seeing today, the scenes depicted here publicize the bright future of communism: social housing blocks, palaces of culture and monuments to comradeship. Dating from the 1960s to the 1980s, they offer a nostalgic yet revealing insight into social and architectural values of the time, acting as a window through which we can examine cars, people and, of course, buildings. These postcards, sanctioned by the authorities, were intended to show the world what living in communism looked like. Instead, this postcard propaganda inadvertently communicates other messages: outside the House of Political Enlightenment in Yerevan, the flowerbed reads "Glory to the Communist Party of the Soviet Union"; in Novopolotsk, art-school pupils paint plein air, their subject a housing estate; at the Irkutsk Polytechnic Institute students stroll past a 16-foot-tall concrete hammer and sickle. These postcards are at once sinister, funny, poignant and surreal. 650 0 $a Architecture $z Soviet Union $v Pictorial works. 650 0 $a Architecture $z Europe, Eastern $v Pictorial works. 650 0 $a Brutalism (Architecture) $z Soviet Union $v Pictorial works. 650 0 $a Brutalism (Architecture) $z Europe, Eastern $v Pictorial works. 650 0 $a Postcards $z Soviet Union $x History $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Postcards $z Europe, Eastern $x History $y 20th century. 650 7 $a Architecture. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00813346 650 7 $a Brutalism (Architecture) $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00839893 650 7 $a Postcards. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01073018 651 7 $a Europe, Eastern. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01245079 651 7 $a Soviet Union. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01210281 650 7 $a Architektur. $2 gnd $0 (DE-588)4002851-3 650 7 $a Blockbebauung. $2 gnd $0 (DE-588)4126921-4 650 7 $a Denkmal. $2 gnd $0 (DE-588)4011453-3 650 7 $a Monumentalarchitektur. $2 gnd $0 (DE-588)4170511-7 650 7 $a Postkarte. $2 gnd $0 (DE-588)4046902-5 651 7 $a Ostblock. $2 gnd $0 (DE-588)4075730-4 651 7 $a Sowjetunion. $2 gnd $0 (DE-588)4077548-3 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 655 7 $a Pictorial works. $2 fast $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423874 $0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423874 700 1 $a Murray, Damon, $e editor. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb99106072 700 1 $a Sorrell, Stephen, $e editor. $0 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nb99106073 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231018011541.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F3C0D7D0101A11EA8DA14E4D97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search