TY  - JOUR
U1  - Wissenschaftlicher Artikel
A1  - Blaive, Muriel
T1  - Utopian visions. The ‘Cold War’ and its political aesthetics
JF  - Zeithistorische Forschungen – Studies in Contemporary History
N2  - What is the link between consumer society, fear of a nuclear war, design, modernity and utopia? According to the curators David Crowley and Jane Pavitt, the answer can be summarized in one concept: the Cold War. ‘Cold War Modern’ is an exhibit intending to show how the two postwar superpowers, the US and the USSR, engaged in aggressive contests in art, architecture and design in order to ‘demonstrate a superior vision of modernity’.
AB  - What is the link between consumer society, fear of a nuclear war, design, modernity and utopia? According to the curators David Crowley and Jane Pavitt, the answer can be summarized in one concept: the Cold War. ‘Cold War Modern’ is an exhibit intending to show how the two postwar superpowers, the US and the USSR, engaged in aggressive contests in art, architecture and design in order to ‘demonstrate a superior vision of modernity’.
Y1  - 2009
U6  - https://doi.org/10.14765/zzf.dok-1858
DO  - https://doi.org/10.14765/zzf.dok-1858
UR  - https://www.zeithistorische-forschungen.de/2-2008/4415
VL  - 5
IS  - 2
SP  - 313
EP  - 322
PB  - ZZF – Centre for Contemporary History: Zeithistorische Forschungen
CY  - Potsdam
ER  -