Advancing a Different Modernism Contributor(s): Mansbach, S. a. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1138574937 ISBN-13: 9781138574939 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $66.45 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Art | Art & Politics - Architecture | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) - Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) |
Physical Information: 0.25" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.57 lbs) 82 pages |
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Publisher Description: Advancing a Different Modernism analyzes a long-ignored but formative aspect of modern architecture and art. By examining selective buildings by the Catalan architect Llu s Dom nech i Montaner (1850-1923) and by the Slovenian designer Joze Plecnik (1872-1957), the book reveals the fundamental political and ideological conservatism that helped shape modernism's history and purpose. This study thus revises the dominant view of modernism as a union of progressive forms and progressive politics. Instead, this innovative volume promotes a nuanced and critical consideration of how architecture was creatively employed to advance radically new forms and methods, while simultaneously consolidating an essentially conservative nationalist self-image. |