Advancing a different modernism

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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 (1849-1923) and by the Slovenian architect, planner, and designer Jože 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…

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Full title :Advancing a different modernism / S.A. Mansbach.

Summary

"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 (1849-1923) and by the Slovenian architect, planner, and designer Jože 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."

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2018

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2018

Notes

Includes the first full English translation of Lluís Domènech i Montaner's seminal "En busca de una arquitectura nacional" which originally appeared in La Renaizensa, 28 February 1878, no. 4, vol. 1.

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The Physical Object

Description:xi, 82 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781138574939, 1138574937
oclc:on1001444234
LC Classification:NA682.M63
Dewey Decimal:720

Critical and theoretical introduction -- Progressive architecture for a conservative Catalonia -- Jože Plečnik, an idiosyncratic Slovenian modernist -- Reflections on modernism's complexity.

Subjects

Conservatism Domènech i Montaner, Lluís Modern movement (Architecture) Modernism (Art) Modernisme (Art) Mouvement moderne (architecture) Nationalism Plečnik, Jože