Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Shayevich, Bela.

Description

1. 222 p. : ill.; 21 cm

Summary

1. Offers a survey of commercial products created in Russia during the 1960s and 1970s through photographs and essays that describe the inspiration, design, and consumer success of each product.
2. "This irreverent survey celebrates the more populist and enduring work in graphic and industrial design that was a product of the Soviet era - a period that remain politically sensitive and under-explored, yet whose influence on the objects and aesthetics of Russian life and thought has been profound. Made in Russia presents fifty such masterpieces, from pioneers of Soviet technology such as the Sputnik, the Buran snowmobile, and the LOMO camera to icons of quotidian culture such as the fishnet shopping bag, the beveled glass, a Cold War-inspired arcade game, and Misha the Olympic bear. Edited by the journalist and author Michael Idov - a Soviet product himself - and including essays from Boris Kachka, Vitaly Komar, Gary Shteyngart, and Lara Vapnyar, the collection explores the provenance of these objects in the forgotten Soviet culture and the unique climate for design from which they could only have emerged."--Book jacket flap.

Subject

1. Consumer goods > Soviet Union
2. Product design > Soviet Union
3. Industrial design > Soviet Union
4. Industrial design
5. Producten
6. Vormgeving
7. Consumer goods
8. Product design
9. Industriedesign
10. Industriell formgivning > Sovjetunionen > 1900-talet
11. Consumer goods > Russia
12. Industrial design > Russia
13. Soviet Union
14. Sovjet-Unie
15. Sowjetunion

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library