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.

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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 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."--Provided by publisher.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2018.
Edition:First edition

Publication Statements

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

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"Routledge Focus."

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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Description:1 online resource : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781351272988, 1351272985, 9781351273008, 1351273000, 9781351272995, 1351272993, 9781351272971, 1351272977
oclc:on1008962934
LC Classification:N6490
Dewey Decimal:720

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

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