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Chandigarh's Le Corbusier : the struggle for modernity in postcolonial India / Vikramaditya Prakash.
Fine Arts Library NA1508.C44 P73 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Prakash, Vikramaditya.
- Series:
- Studies in modernity and national identity
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Architecture--India--Chandīgarh--20th century.
- Architecture.
- City planning--India--Chandīgarh--History--20th century.
- City planning.
- Le Corbusier, 1887-1965.
- Le Corbusier.
- History.
- Chandīgarh (India)--Social conditions.
- Chandīgarh (India).
- India--Chandīgarh.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 179 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 27 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2002]
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction: The "East-West" Opposition in Chandigarh's Le Corbusier 3
- 2 The Master Plan: Contesting Conceptions of the Modern 31
- 3 The Capitol Complex: The Rousseauesque Garden of Eden 71
- 4 The Capitol Buildings: The Aesthetics of the High Court and the Assembly 96
- 5 With Open Hands: Architectural Symbolism and the Vagaries of Political Claims 123
- 6 Afterword: Notes on Inheriting a Postcolonial Modernism 146.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [169]-172) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0295982071
- OCLC:
- 49285626
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