Main entry:

Moravánszky, Ákos.

Title & Author:

Competing visions : aesthetic invention and social imagination in Central European architecture, 1867-1918 / Ákos Moravánszky.

Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1998.

Description:

xv, 508 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 28 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-473) and indexes.
Ch. 1. Introduction: The Identity of an Imaginary Region -- Ch. 2. The City as Political Monument -- Ch. 3. Antiquarian and Individualist Historicism -- Ch. 4. Art Nouveau: The Will to Style -- Ch. 5. Imperial Realism: The Aesthetics of the Wagner Circle -- Ch. 6. The Search for a National Style -- Ch. 7. The Ornament: Salvation or Crime? -- Ch. 8. Folded Facades: Cubism and Empathy -- Ch. 9. Classicism as Style, Classicism as Attitude -- Ch. 10. The Architecture of Social Reform.
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Dust jacket.

Summary:

"In this first comparative study of the architecture of the countries that defined the Austro-Hungarian monarchy from 1867 to 1918, Akos Moravanszky discusses the aesthetic innovations of Central European architects and the role that architecture played in the development of modern culture. By studying the crucial debates about modernity, national identity, tectonic from, and the social role of the architect, Moravanszky does justice to a story of enormous cultural complexity, rather than viewing architectural history as a linear story of buildings leading to a monolithic modern form." "This book unfolds the wide spectrum of problems that Central European artists and architects faced in the first decades of the century in such centers as Budapest, Prague, Brno, Vienna, Cracow, Zagreb, and Ljubljana. It also examines the changing interpretation of architecture by the critics of the time."--Jacket.

Resources:
Book review (H-Net)

ISBN:

0262133342 (alk. paper)
9780262133340 (alk. paper)

Subject:

Bauer, Leopold 1872-1938
Fabiani, Max 1865-1962
Gessner, Hubert 1871-1943
Gočár, Josef.
Hoffmann, Joseph 1865-
Janák, Pavel 1882-1956
Lajta, Béla 1873-1920
Lechner, Ödön 1845-1914
Loos, Adolf 1870-1933
Medgyaszay, István 1877-1959
Novotný, Otakar.
Olbrich, Joseph Maria 1867-1908
Plečnik, Jože 1872-1957
Schmidt, Friedrich von 1825-1891
Vágó, József 1877-1947
Wagner, Otto 1841-1918
Association Mitteleuropa
Architecture Europe, Central History.
Architecture Europe centrale.
Architecture Europe centrale 19e siècle.
Architecture Europe centrale 20e siècle.
Architecture Europe centrale Histoire.
Architecture
Architektur
Bildband
Bouwkunst.
Modernisme (cultuur)
Architecture Europe, Central.
Architecture, Modern 19th century Europe, Central.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Europe, Central.
Architecture Europe, Central 19th century
Architecture Europe, Central 20th century
Central Europe
Kaiserforum
Österreich-Ungarn
Hoffmann, Joseph

Form/genre:

History
Books.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 196271
Call No.: ID NA957.M67; ID:97-B2818
Status: Available