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Advancing a Different Modernism (Routledge Focus on Art History and Visual Studies) - Hardcover

Book 1 of 11: Routledge Focus on Art History and Visual Studies

Mansbach, S.A.

 
9781138574939: Advancing a Different Modernism (Routledge Focus on Art History and Visual Studies)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1138574937 ISBN 13: 9781138574939
Publisher: Routledge, 2017

Synopsis

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 Domčnech i Montaner (1850-1923) and by the Slovenian 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.

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About the Author

Steven Mansbach is Distinguished University Professor and Professor of the History of Twentieth-Century Art at the University of Maryland.

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2017
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1138574937
ISBN 13 
9781138574939
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
94