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Advancing a Different Modernism

Advancing a Different Modernism

Paperback

Series: Routledge Focus on Art History and Visual Studies

Art HistoryGeneral ArtArchitecture History

ISBN10: 1032178884
ISBN13: 9781032178882
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Sep 30 2021
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.27
Height: 0.20 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

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 Joze 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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