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Tracing modernity : manifestations of the modern in architecture and the city

Author: Mari Hvattum; Christian Hermansen Cordua
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Drawing on architectural and urban history, as well as philosophy and sociology, this title traces the 'modern' project through its multifarious manifestation in order to understand contemporary culture.
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Material Type: Internet resource
Document Type: Book, Internet Resource
All Authors / Contributors: Mari Hvattum; Christian Hermansen Cordua
ISBN: 041530511X 9780415305112 0415305128 9780415305129 9780203634745 0203634748
OCLC Number: 53223553
Description: xii, 346 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Analysing modernity : some issues / David Frisby --
What modernism was : art, progress and the avant-garde / Arnfinn Bø-Rygg --
Modernity and architecture / Iain Boyd Whyte --
Modernity and the uses of history : understanding classical architecture from Bötticher to Warburg / Caroline van Eck --
Projecting modern culture : 'aesthetic fundamentalism' and modern architecture / Gabriele Bryant --
Modernity and the question of representation / Dalibor Vesely --
'How is it that there is no modern style of architecture?' 'Greek' Thomson versus Gilbert Scott / Gavin Stamp --
'A complete and universal collection' : Gottfried Semper and the Great Exhibition / Mari Hvattum --
The interior as aesthetic refuge : Edmond de Goncourt's La maison d'un artiste / Diana Periton --
Timely untimeliness : architectural modernism and the idea of the Gesamtkunstwerk / Gabriele Bryant --
Le Corbusier and the restorative fragment at the Swiss Pavilion / Dagmar Motycka Weston --
The concrete memory of modernity : excerpts from a Moscow diary / Jonathan Charley --
Ildefonso Cerdá and modernity / Christian Hermansen --
'To knock fire out of men' : forging modernity in Glasgow / Juliet Kinchin --
The expressionist utopia / Iain Boyd Whyte --
Walter Benjamin's Arcades project : a prehistory of modernity / David Frisby --
Impromptus of a great city : Siegfried Kracauer's Strassen in Berlin und Anderswo / Graeme Gilloch --
Orpheus in Hollywood : Siegfried Kracauer's Offenbach film / Graeme Gilloch.
Responsibility: edited by Mari Hvattum and Christian Hermansen.
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Drawing on architectural and urban history, as well as philosophy and sociology, this title traces the 'modern' project through its multifarious manifestation in order to understand contemporary culture.

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