Tracing modernity [electronic resource] : manifestations of the modern in architecture and the city / edited by Mari Hvattum and Christian Hermansen.

Contributor(s): Hvattum, Mari, 1966- | Hermansen Cordua, Christian | ProQuest (Firm)Material type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2004Description: xii, 346 p. : illSubject(s): Modern movement (Architecture) | Architecture and society | Modernism (Aesthetics)Genre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 724/.6 LOC classification: NA682.M63 | T73 2004Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Analysing modernity : some issues / David Frisby -- What modernism was : art, progress and the avant-garde / Arnfinn B-Rygg -- Modernity and architecture / Iain Boyd Whyte -- Modernity and the uses of history : understanding classical architecture from Botticher 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 Cerda 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.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [325]-340) and index.

Analysing modernity : some issues / David Frisby -- What modernism was : art, progress and the avant-garde / Arnfinn B-Rygg -- Modernity and architecture / Iain Boyd Whyte -- Modernity and the uses of history : understanding classical architecture from Botticher 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 Cerda 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.

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