Advancing a Different Modernism

ISBN-13: 9781032178882 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 96 str.

S. a. Mansbach

Opis

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 Jože Plecnik (1872-1957), the book reveals the fundamental political and ideological conservatism that

Spis treści

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Critical and Theoretical Introduction

Chapter 2: Progressive Architecture for a Conservative Catalonia

Chapter 3: Jože Plečnik, an Idiosyncratic Slovenian Modernist

Chapter 4: Reflections on Modernism’s Complexity

Appendix

O autorze

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