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"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...
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: |
Routledge focus on art history and visual studies ;
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| 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 consid |
| Item Description: |
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. |
| Carrier Form: | xi, 82 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781138574939 (hardcover) : 1138574937 (hardcover) |
| Index Number: | NA682 |
| CLC: |
J110.95 TU-091.5 |
| Call Number: | TU-091.5/M286 |
| Contents: | Critical and theoretical introduction -- Progressive architecture for a conservative Catalonia -- Jože Plečnik, an idiosyncratic Slovenian modernist -- Reflections on modernism's complexity. |