
- 82 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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Advancing a Different Modernism
About this book
Advancing a Different Modernism analyzes a long-ignored but formative aspect of modern architecture and art. By examining selective buildings by the Catalan architect LluĂs Domènech i Montaner (1850-1923) and by the Slovenian designer JoĹže 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.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Illustration List
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Critical and Theoretical Introduction
- 2 Progressive Architecture for a Conservative Catalonia
- 3 JoĹže PleÄnik, an Idiosyncratic Slovenian Modernist
- 4 Reflections on Modernismâs Complexity
- Appendix
- Index