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Cover: 9780253039965 | Palace Complex | Michal Murawski | Taschenbuch | Englisch | 2019
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Palace Complex
A Stalinist Skyscraper, Capitalist Warsaw, and a City Transfixed
Taschenbuch von Michal Murawski
Sprache: Englisch

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The Palace of Culture and Science is a massive Stalinist skyscraper that was "gifted" to Warsaw by the Soviet Union in 1955. Framing the Palace's visual, symbolic, and functional prominence in the everyday life of the Polish capital as a sort of obsession, locals joke that their city suffers from a "Palace of Culture complex." Despite attempts to privatize it, the Palace remains municipally owned, and continues to play host to a variety of public institutions and services. The Parade Square, which surrounds the building, has resisted attempts to convert it into a money-making commercial center. Author Michal Murawski traces the skyscraper's powerful impact on 21st century Warsaw; on its architectural and urban landscape; on its political, ideological, and cultural lives; and on the bodies and minds of its inhabitants. The Palace Complex explores the many factors that allow Warsaw's Palace to endure as a still-socialist building in a post-socialist city.
The Palace of Culture and Science is a massive Stalinist skyscraper that was "gifted" to Warsaw by the Soviet Union in 1955. Framing the Palace's visual, symbolic, and functional prominence in the everyday life of the Polish capital as a sort of obsession, locals joke that their city suffers from a "Palace of Culture complex." Despite attempts to privatize it, the Palace remains municipally owned, and continues to play host to a variety of public institutions and services. The Parade Square, which surrounds the building, has resisted attempts to convert it into a money-making commercial center. Author Michal Murawski traces the skyscraper's powerful impact on 21st century Warsaw; on its architectural and urban landscape; on its political, ideological, and cultural lives; and on the bodies and minds of its inhabitants. The Palace Complex explores the many factors that allow Warsaw's Palace to endure as a still-socialist building in a post-socialist city.
Über den Autor

Michä Murawski is Assistant Professor in Critical Area Studies at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface: Politicized Perambulations

Introduction: Palace Complex/Complex Palace

1. The Planners: Conceiving the Palace Complex

2. Public Spirit, or the Gift of Noncapitalism

3. Designing Architectural Power: Scale, Style and Location

4. Site-Specific: Varsovian Interpretations of the Palace

5. Varsovianization: The Palace Complex After 1989

6. "The Center of the Very Center"

7. The Extraordinary Palace

Conclusion: Complex Appropriations

Epilogue: The Still-Socialist Palace and the War Against Post-Communism

Appendix: Palaceological Survey: Summary of Results

Bibliography

Index

Details
Empfohlen (von): 22
Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Reihe: Indiana University Press (IPS)
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780253039965
ISBN-10: 0253039967
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Murawski, Michal
Hersteller: Indiana University Press
Indiana University Press (IPS)
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Mare Nostrum Group B.V., Doelen 72, ?-4831 GR Breda, gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk
Maße: 229 x 152 x 19 mm
Von/Mit: Michal Murawski
Erscheinungsdatum: 22.03.2019
Gewicht: 0,53 kg
Artikel-ID: 131310760
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