 | Advancing a Different Modernism Subjects: Arts; Area Studies; Built Environment; Humanities; Politics & International Relations; European Studies; European Politics; Art & Visual Culture; Architecture; History; Political Philosophy; History of Art; Modern Art; Architectural History; European History; Modern History 1750-1945; Nationalism; 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. Steven Mansbach is Distinguished University Professor and Professor of the History of Twentieth-Century Art at the University of Maryland. |
