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Like new: A book that looks new but has been read. Cover has no visible wear, and the dust jacket ...
ISBN
9783836587792
Book Title
Frédéric Chaubin. Cccp. Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed. 40th Ed
Publisher
Taschen
Item Length
8.9 in
Publication Year
2022
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1.2 in
Author
Édéric Chaubin
Genre
Art, Architecture, Photography
Topic
History / Contemporary (1945-), General, Regional, Russian & Former Soviet Union
Item Weight
38.3 Oz
Item Width
6.6 in
Number of Pages
440 Pages

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Taschen
ISBN-10
3836587793
ISBN-13
9783836587792
eBay Product ID (ePID)
17057272834

Product Key Features

Book Title
Frédéric Chaubin. Cccp. Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed. 40th Ed
Number of Pages
440 Pages
Language
English
Topic
History / Contemporary (1945-), General, Regional, Russian & Former Soviet Union
Publication Year
2022
Genre
Art, Architecture, Photography
Author
Édéric Chaubin
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.2 in
Item Weight
38.3 Oz
Item Length
8.9 in
Item Width
6.6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Trade
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
One of the most splendid of recent architectural publications and a revelation. It illustrates late Soviet public buildings almost entirely unknown in the West.
Dewey Decimal
778.9447
Edition Description
Multilanguage edition
Synopsis
Elected the architectural book of the year by the International Artbook and Film Festival in Perpignan, France, Frédéric Chaubin's Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed explores 90 buildings in 14 former Soviet Republics. Each of these structures expresses what Chaubin considers the fourth age of Soviet architecture, an unknown burgeoning that took place from 1970 until 1990. Contrary to the 1920s and 1950s, no "school" or main trend emerges here. These buildings represent a chaotic impulse brought about by a decaying system. Taking advantage of the collapsing monolithic structure, architects went far beyond modernism, going back to the roots or freely innovating. Some of the daring ones completed projects that the Constructivists would have dreamt of (Druzhba Sanatorium, Yalta), others expressed their imagination in an expressionist way (Palace of Weddings, Tbilisi). A summer camp, inspired by sketches of a prototype lunar base, lays claim to Suprematist influence (Prometheus youth camp, Bogatyr). Then comes the "speaking architecture" widespread in the last years of the USSR: a crematorium adorned with concrete flames (Crematorium, Kiev), a technological institute with a flying saucer crashed on the roof (Institute of Scientific Research, Kiev), a political center watching you like Big Brother (House of Soviets, Kaliningrad). In their puzzle of styles, their outlandish strategies, these buildings are extraordinary remnants of a collapsing system. In their diversity and local exoticism, they testify both to the vast geography of the USSR and its encroaching end of the Soviet Union, the holes in a widening net. At the same time, they immortalize many of the ideological dreams of the country and its time, from an obsession with the cosmos to the rebirth of identity., Frédéric Chaubin's Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed features 90 Soviet buildings throughout the former USSR, each built between 1970 and 1990. It is a journey through time. With local exoticism, outlandish ideas, and a puzzle of styles, these weird and wonderful buildings are unearthly reminders of a fallen ideology., Elected the architectural book of the year by the International Artbook and Film Festival in Perpignan, France, Frédéric Chaubin's Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed explores 90 buildings in 14 former Soviet Republics . Each of these structures expresses what Chaubin considers the fourth age of Soviet architecture , an unknown burgeoning that took place from 1970 until 1990 . Contrary to the 1920s and 1950s, no "school" or main trend emerges here. These buildings represent a chaotic impulse brought about by a decaying system . Taking advantage of the collapsing monolithic structure, architects went far beyond modernism, going back to the roots or freely innovating. Some of the daring ones completed projects that the Constructivists would have dreamt of (Druzhba Sanatorium, Yalta), others expressed their imagination in an expressionist way (Palace of Weddings, Tbilisi). A summer camp, inspired by sketches of a prototype lunar base, lays claim to Suprematist influence (Prometheus youth camp, Bogatyr). Then comes the "speaking architecture" widespread in the last years of the USSR: a crematorium adorned with concrete flames (Crematorium, Kiev), a technological institute with a flying saucer crashed on the roof (Institute of Scientific Research, Kiev), a political center watching you like Big Brother (House of Soviets, Kaliningrad). In their puzzle of styles, their outlandish strategies, these buildings are extraordinary remnants of a collapsing system . In their diversity and local exoticism, they testify both to the vast geography of the USSR and its encroaching end of the Soviet Union, the holes in a widening net. At the same time, they immortalize many of the ideological dreams of the country and its time , from an obsession with the cosmos to the rebirth of identity.
LC Classification Number
TR659
Copyright Date
2022
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