The Second Avant-Garde: Design of Domestic Objects in Soviet Russia, 1953-1991

Información del proyecto

SAGDESOR

Identificador del acuerdo de subvención: 700913

DOI

10.3030/700913

Proyecto cerrado

Fecha de la firma de la CE 11 Marzo 2016

Fecha de inicio 1 Agosto 2016

Fecha de finalización 31 Julio 2018

Financiado con arreglo a

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Coste total

€ 200 194,80

Aportación de la UE

€ 200 194,80

Coordinado por

AARHUS UNIVERSITET
Denmark

Objetivo

Russian/Soviet avant-garde of the 1920s is broadly recognized to have been an integral part of the European avant-garde and Russia’s first truly original contribution to world culture. In contrast, Soviet art and design of the post-war period is often dismissed by general public as propaganda, hack-work and shameful plagiarism that resulted in a uniform and shabby world of commodities. Thanks to a growing body of scholarship on Soviet design, as well as to a recent work of enthusiastic Russian curators who organized Moscow design museum, a positive narrative of Soviet design have begun to emerge. In particular, the genealogical connection between Russian avant-garde and late Soviet design is generally noticed by scholars. However, the concrete ways of translating the avant-garde’s ideas into late socialist design and commodity production have received relatively small attention. This research project takes avant-garde’s legacy as a key link between post-war Soviet and Western, in particular Scandinavian, design. It addresses the question of temporal and cross-European design connections by focusing on a “socialist object.” The latter is considered both as a reference to the avant-garde precedent and a concept useful for reaching beyond the standard narrative of Soviet design as a poor imitation of Western models. By relying on archival and published sources I will analyze the transition of objects through different settings – designers’ desks and workshops, artistic and technical councils, factory floors, department stores and people’s homes. My research will present a complex history of Soviet design as a second Russian avant-garde and as a part of post-war European development of visual and material culture. Thus it will provide the historical background for the current Russian designers' search for interconnection with European design schools and trends.

Ámbito científico (EuroSciVoc)

• ciencias sociales › ciencias de la educación › didáctica
• ciencias sociales › ciencias de la educación › pedagogía
• ciencias naturales › ciencias biológicas › ecología
• ciencias sociales › sociología › ideologías
• humanidades › historia y arqueología › historia › historia contemporánea

Programa(s)

• H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions PROGRAMA PRINCIPAL
  
• H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
  

Tema(s)

• MSCA-IF-2015-EF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF-EF)
  

Régimen de financiación

MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF

Convocatoria de propuestas

H2020-MSCA-IF-2015

Coordinador

AARHUS UNIVERSITET

• Aportación neta de la UEn: € 200 194,80
• Dirección: NORDRE RINGGADE 1 ; 8000 Aarhus C ; Dinamarca
• Región: Danmark › Midtjylland › Østjylland
• Tipo de actividad: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Coste total: € 200 194,80