The Role of I. V. Stalin in the History of Architecture

Authors

  • Alexander Rappaport Union of Moscow Architects; Union of Designers of Russia; UMA Internet-magazine “Architector”; International Association of Architecture Critics

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.47-48.1010

Keywords:

kitch, taste, relativity, opinion, style, totalitarism, mass society

Abstract

The critique of “constructivism” and implementation of “stalinist empire” style in the USSR is regarded as a general trend in the course of revolutionary shift to modern mass society in the West culture, producing “kitch” as a hybrid of aristocratic and popular taste in urban environment. This turbulent process produces a total relativity of moral and artistic values, tastes and the concepts of style. The idea of truth and beauty becomes conventional. The future of postmodernist kitch is still obscure.

How to Cite

Rappaport, A. (2016). The Role of I. V. Stalin in the History of Architecture. Project Baikal, 13(47-48), 116–119. https://doi.org/10.7480/projectbaikal.47-48.1010

Published

2016-05-19

Issue

No. 47-48 (2016): elites

Section

Articles