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| A toy train made by Aleksandr Chebotaryov for his son in 1996; image via Island Breaths |
Home-Made: Contemporary Russian Folk Artifacts by Vladimir Arkhipov (
Fuel, London, 2006) documents more than 220 unique objects, each made by ordinary Russians during the collapse of the Soviet empire when access to manufactured wares was very limited.
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| A wire brush made by Vasilii Arkhipov in 1992; image via Island Breaths |
These objects are a source of fascination for Arkhipov, a Russian artist who collects the objects to preserve their idiosyncractic functionalities. Readers can expect to be equally entranced by their ingenuity.
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