@book{312953f1b10e4d81b24aa8e2d17f8d64,
title = "The New Russian Book: A Graphic Cultural History",
abstract = "This book takes up the obtrusive problem of visual representation of fiction in contemporary Russian book design. By analyzing a broad variety of book covers, the study offers an absolutely unique material that illustrates a radically changing notion of literature in the transformation of Soviet print culture to a post-Soviet book market. It delivers a profound and critical exploration of Russian visual imaginary of classic, popular, and contemporary prose. Among all the carelessly bungled covers of mass-published post-Soviet series the study identifies gems from experimental designers. By taking a comparative approach to the clash of two formerly separate book cultures, the Western and the Soviet, that results both in a mixture of highbrow and lowbrow forms and in ideological re-interpretations of the literary works, this book contributes to opening an East-West dialogue between the fields of Russian studies, contemporary book and media history, art, design, and visual studies.",
keywords = "Russia , book history, design, post-Soviet, Soviet, print culture",
author = "Pristed, \{Birgitte Beck\}",
year = "2017",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-50708-8",
language = "English",
isbn = "978-3-319-50707-1",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
}