Advancing a Different Modernism

Advancing a Different Modernism analyzes a long-ignored but formative aspect of modern architecture and art. By examining selective buildings by the Catalan architect Lluís Domènech i Montaner (1850-1923) and by the Slovenian designer Jože Plecnik (1872-1957), the book reveals the fundamental political and ideological conservatism that helped shape modernism's history and purpose.

Steven Mansbach is Distinguished University Professor and Professor of the History of Twentieth-Century Art at the University of Maryland.

Table of Contents Chapter 1: Critical and Theoretical Introduction Chapter 2: Progressive Architecture for a Conservative Catalonia Chapter 3: Jože Ple-nik, an Idiosyncratic Slovenian Modernist Chapter 4: Reflections on Modernism's Complexity Appendix