Art for Architecture: Georgia: Soviet Modernist Mosaics from 1960 to 1990
By (Author) Nino Palavandishvili
By (author) Lena Prents
DOM Publishers
DOM Publishers
1st October 2018
Germany
General
Non Fiction
Architecture
History of architecture
280
Width 134mm, Height 245mm
Monumental, decorative mosaics were created in public spaces of Tbilisi during the Soviet era in the 1970s and 1980s. Yet architectural critics have largely ignored them until now, dismissing them as little more than propagandistic tools that were used to display "advertisements" on building exteriors. The authors of this guide set out to restore t