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Soviet Metro Stations - Herwig Christopher
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Soviet Metro Stations
Type : Books
SKU: VV1650312
ISBN: 9780995745568
Pages: 240
Format: 207 x 168 x 26
Cover: Hardcover
Year: 2019
Publisher: Thames & Hudson (Thames & Hudson)
Your Price: $231.93
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Краткая аннотация:
From the author of Soviet Bus Stops, an underground trip through the Soviet Metro«For us,» said Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev in his memoirs, «there was something supernatural about the Metro.» Visiting any of the dozen or so Metro networks built across the Soviet Union between the 1930s and 1980s, it is easy to see why. Rather than the straightforward systems of London, Paris or New York, these networks were used as a propaganda artwork--a fusion of sculpture, architecture and art that combined Byzantine, medieval, baroque and constructivist ideas and infused them with the notion that communism would mean a «communal luxury» for all. Today these astonishing spaces remain the closest realization of a Soviet utopia. Following his bestselling quest for Soviet Bus Stops, Canadian photographer Christopher Herwig has completed a subterranean expedition photographing the stations of each Metro network of the former USSR. From extreme marble and |
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