SOVIET PORCELAIN IN THE SPACE OF EVERYDAY CULTURE OF THE 1950S - 1960S: DEVELOPMENT OF IDEAS AND IMAGES
The development of new forms of interaction between the two spaces - the space of “art” and the space of “everyday life” - was an important part of the Soviet culture of the 1950s and 1960s. Until the 1950s, these spheres existed separately and did not create a single space. The Soviet popular culture offered everyone, not only persons from distinct classes, products for education or entertainment. The space of “high culture” was appropriated in a special way. The Soviet man was presented with simple and beautiful images of ballets in porcelain compositions. The phenomenon of Soviet popular porcelain plastics reflected this idea. It presented interesting material for studying the evolution of the topic, subjects and technical features. In addition, it showed an important trend of incorporating new artistic images of “high art” (literature, ballet, drama theater) into the space of everyday life. The focus of the study was on the analysis of several Soviet popular porcelain compositions created in the 1950s and 1960s on the topic of literary works and ballets (“The Firebird” and “Petrushka” by I. Stravinsky, “The Red Poppy” by R. Glier, “The Bakhchisarai Fountain” by B. Asafiev and others). The author concluded that popular porcelain was not only the work of decorative art (the artistic value of a number of works of popular porcelain still remain the subject of discussion) but also an important part of everyday culture, an indispensable element of the Soviet interior, which created the idea of the Soviet man.