Advancing a Different Modernism

S.A. Mansbach

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Routledge
02 November 2017

The Arts: General & Reference; History of Art & Design Styles; Regional studies; Social & political philosophy; The environment

Series: Routledge Focus on Art History and Visual Studies

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 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 consideration of how architecture was creatively employed to advance radically new forms and methods, while simultaneously consolidating an essentially conservative nationalist self-image.

By: S.A. Mansbach
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 216mm, Width: 138mm,
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781138574939
ISBN 10: 1138574937
Series: Routledge Focus on Art History and Visual Studies
Pages: 82
Publication Date: 02 November 2017
Audience: College/higher education , Primary , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Table of Contents Chapter 1: Critical and Theoretical Introduction Chapter 2: Progressive Architecture for a Conservative Catalonia Chapter 3: Jože Plečnik, an Idiosyncratic Slovenian Modernist Chapter 4: Reflections on Modernism’s Complexity Appendix

Steven Mansbach is Distinguished University Professor and Professor of the History of Twentieth-Century Art at the University of Maryland.

Reviews for Advancing a Different Modernism

"""With Advancing a Different Modernism Mansbach, already recognized as one of the pre-eminent scholars of Central European modernism, moves the field in an exciting and stimulating direction, looking beyond the 'classics' of modernism and incorporating works of artists for whom the ideas and ideals of nationalism, and its role in modernism, were profoundly formative."" - Samuel D. Albert, Fashion Institute of Technology"