« 2018. #5 (143)

The Ethnology Notebooks, 2018, № 5 (143), 1149—1160

UDK 745.52:747 ”1920/1980”(091)

DOI https://doi.org/10.15407/nz2018.05.1149

Received  29.06.2018

CARPETS AND RUGS IN HOUSING INTERIOR AS ELEMENTS OF THE SOVIET LIFE CULTURE

ORCID ID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0340-5436

Jamborko Olha, Candidate of Sciences in Art Studies,

Associate Professor of the department of design and theory of art,

teacher of Institute of arts of  the Prykarpattya national university

of the name of Vasyl Stefanyk.

Street of Shevchenko, 57, Ivano-Frankivsk, Ivano-Frankivsk area, 76000

Contacts: tel. 067 139 14 78, e-mail: kalyna015@gmail.com

Abstrakt. The article deals with the use of carpets in the interiors of the Soviet era at various stages of its historical development. The factors influencing the aesthetics and style of typical dwelling interiors are highlighted, the artistic compositional features of their subject environment are considered. The main attention is paid to the study of the semantic status of the carpet in the culture of everyday life of the urban population of the 1920’s and 1980’s, and the formation of related key social practices. The place and role of carpets of Ukrainian production in these processes are found out.

Keywords: carpet, life culture, dwelling interior, social practices.

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