Soviet Architectural Avant-Gardes by Danilo Udovicki-Selb - 9781474299862

Soviet Architectural Avant-GardesArchitecture and Stalins Revolution from Above, 1928-1938\nAuthor(s): Danilo Udovicki-Selb\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Bloomsbury Visual Arts\nISBN-13: 9781474299862, 978-1474299862\nSynopsis\nConventional readings of the history of Soviet art and architecture show modernist utopian aspirations as all but prohibited by 1932 under Stalins 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.\n\nIn doing so, this book provides an essential perspective on how to analyse, evaluate, and re-imagine the his.