Advancing a Different Modernism

By S A Mansbach

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.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1138574937
• ISBN13: 9781138574939
• Release Date: November 2017
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"