Art and everydayness: popular culture and daily life in the communist Czechoslovakia

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dc.citation.epage720en_US
dc.citation.issueNumber6en_US
dc.citation.spage703en_US
dc.citation.volumeNumber15en_US
dc.contributor.authorJust, D.en_US
dc.date.accessioned2016-02-08T09:43:24Z
dc.date.available2016-02-08T09:43:24Z
dc.date.issued2012en_US
dc.departmentDepartment of Political Science and Public Administrationen_US
dc.description.abstractThis article analyzes the interaction between art and practices of everyday life in communist Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s. Discussing various forms of adaptations to the politically repressive system - from photography and film to social activities such as 'cottage homemaking' and 'cabining' - the author describes ways in which popular culture under communism resisted the state-induced drive to modernize which, as a political tool, was designed to pacify the masses. The article suggests that by breaching the gap between the quotidian and the extraordinary, which as a systemic division has defined daily life in modernity, popular culture was instrumental in reinvigorating everydayness. © The Author(s) 2012.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1177/1367549412450637en_US
dc.identifier.issn1367-5494
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/21230
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherSage Publications Ltd.en_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367549412450637en_US
dc.source.titleEuropean Journal of Cultural Studiesen_US
dc.subjectCommunismen_US
dc.subjectEveryday lifeen_US
dc.subjectModernityen_US
dc.subjectOrdinarinessen_US
dc.subjectPopular cultureen_US
dc.titleArt and everydayness: popular culture and daily life in the communist Czechoslovakiaen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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