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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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Abstract:
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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