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Journal of Design History 1997 10(2):177-201; doi:10.1093/jdh/10.2.177
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Destalinization and Taste, 1953–1963

SUSAN E. REID

University of Northumbria


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This article examines the discourse of taste in the Khrushchev Thaw. Reformist art and design professionals set out to refashion popular aesthetic judgement in their own modernizing and internationalist image, identifying good, ‘contemporary’ taste with truth to materials, functionality, simplicity, and moderation. In painting they reaffirmed early modernist concepts of painterly culture and the aesthetic transformation of reality. The promotion of aesthetic quality was part of a broader campaign by the liberal cultural intelligentsia to reassert its distinction and to reappropriate from Stalinist bureaucrats the intelligentsia's traditional prerogative to define cultural standards in the name of ‘the people’.


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