Advancing a different modernism / S.A. Mansbach.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mansbach, Steven A., 1950- author.

Series:

Routledge focus on art history and visual studies ; 1.

Routledge focus on art history and visual studies ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Domènech i Montaner, Lluís, 1849-1923.

Domènech i Montaner, Lluís.

Plečnik, Jože, 1872-1957.

Plečnik, Jože.

Modern movement (Architecture).

Modernism (Art).

Physical Description:

xi, 82 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : Routledge, 2018.

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Critical and theoretical introduction

Progressive architecture for a conservative Catalonia

Jože Plečnik, an idiosyncratic Slovenian modernist

Reflections on modernism's complexity.

Notes:

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.

"Routledge Focus"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781138574939

1138574937

OCLC:

1001444234