Advancing a Different Modernism (Hardback)
Hardcover 82 pages English Nov 02, 2017
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Advancing a Different Modernism analyzes a long-ignored but formative aspect of modern architecture and art. By examining selective buildings by the Catalan architect Lluís Domènech 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.
- Author:
- Steven A. Mansbach
- Publisher:
- Routledge
- Publication Date:
- Nov 02, 2017
- Number of pages:
- 82 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Hardcover
- ISBN-10:
- 1138574937
- ISBN-13:
- 9781138574939