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Originally Posted by aic4ever
We can't be having uncredited images floating about the intertubes, after all.
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My fault: drowsy posting=forgetting to cite images (which are likely in the public domain but who knows)—we were referring to the never-completed Palace of the Soviets (from
muar.ru, drawn by Boris Iofan desperately hoping Stalin would appreciate it):
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Originally Posted by Loopy
^Well, weirdly, after Gropius, Le Corbusier and Mendelsohn proposed timely designs, the Comintern chose this Neo-Classical concept.
Perhaps, the new Bankster Land Barons will choose a Neo-classical design for the Chicago Spire site after rejecting Calatravas design as counter-revolutionary. I recommend Daniel P. Coffey or Antunovich for this important task.
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The official line was actually that the Communists were liberating past historical styles from their oppressive contexts, just as they had liberated the masses from their oppressive social conditions.
(Of course, the real reason is that radical politics ≠ radical style, and even if it did the likes of Stalin were pretty regressive anyway).
It is really weird how they anticipated postmodernism—never thought of socialist realism that way before…