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Visions of the Future : Modern Architecture, Catholicism, and the State in Central Europe, 1918-1939 / Matthew Rampley.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rampley, Matthew, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Catholic Church--Europe, Central--History--20th century.
- Catholic Church.
- Catholic church buildings--Europe, Central--History--20th century.
- Catholic church buildings.
- Church architecture--Europe, Central--History--20th century.
- Church architecture.
- Modern movement (Architecture)--Europe, Central.
- Modern movement (Architecture).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (307 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, PA : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2025]
- Summary:
- Some of the most striking examples of modernist architecture are churches, yet they have seldom been subject to extended critical analysis.In this book, Matthew Rampley provides just such an analysis, focusing on the Catholic Church in interwar Austria, Czechoslovakia, and Hungary.
- Contents:
- Intro
- COVER Front
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Notes to Introduction
- Chapter 1: "A Beautiful Future "Reading the Past, Reclaiming the Present
- Notes to Chapter 1
- Chapter 2: In What Style Shall We Build ? Reaction and Modernism in the Church
- Notes to Chapter 2
- Chapter 3: The Suspension of History Modernist Medievalisms
- Notes to Chapter 3
- Chapter 4:The Question of Technology Catholic Responses to Functionalist Architecture
- Notes to Chapter 4
- Chapter 5: Fascinating Fascism Aura, Myth, and Cultural Diplomacy
- Notes to Chapter 5
- Chapter 6: Deproletarianizing the Poor Churches, Mass Politics, and the City
- Notes to Chapter 6
- Chapter 7: Building Utopia Towns, Villages, and the Countryside
- Notes to Chapter 7
- Chapter 8: Values, Object Choice, Method Religious Architecture and the Historiography of Modernism
- Notes to Chapter 8
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 0-271-10009-5
- 0-271-10010-9
- OCLC:
- 1521497959
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