Title & Author:

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

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2004.

Description:

xii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 325-340) and index.
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.

Summary:

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.

Resources:
2004.
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ISBN:

041530511X (hdbk.)
9780415305112 (hdbk.)
0415305128 (pbk.)
9780415305129 (pbk.)
9780203634745
0203634748

Subject:

Modern movement (Architecture)
Architecture and society.
Modernism (Aesthetics)
Mouvement moderne (Architecture)
Architecture et société.
Modernisme (Esthétique)
21.60 architecture: general.
Architektur
Städtebau
Architectuurtheorieën.
Moderniteit.
Modern movement

Added entries:

Hvattum, Mari, 1966-
Hermansen Cordua, Christian.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 232318
Call No.: NA682.M63 T73 2004
Status: Available