Advancing a Different Modernism (Routledge Focus on Art History and Visual Studies) - 9781138574939

Advancing a Different Modernism analyzes a long-ignored but formative aspect of modern architecture and art. By examining selective buildings by the Catalan architect Llu?s Dom?nech 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.

• | Author: Steven A. Mansbach
• | Publisher: Routledge
• | Publication Date: Nov 02, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 82 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover
• | ISBN-10: 1138574937
• | ISBN-13: 9781138574939