Sanctioning Modernism: Architecture and the Making of Postwar Identities 0292757255, 9780292757257

Sanctioning Modernism: Architecture and the Making of Postwar Identities 9780292760646

In the decades following World War II, modern architecture spread around the globe alongside increased modernization, ur

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The Maya of Modernism: Art, Architecture, and Film 0826349811, 9780826349811

From the time when archaeologists first began to discover the civilization's spectacular ruins, Mexico's Mayan

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Decadent Catholicism and the Making of Modernism 9781350137653, 9781350137684, 9781350137660

Tracing the movement of literary decadence from the writers of the fin de siècle – Oscar Wilde, Aubrey Beardsley, Ernest

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The Allied Arts: Architecture and Craft in Postwar Canada 9780773586826

A groundbreaking exploration of the collaborations and tensions between architecture and craft. Considering a wide ran

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Tanaka, the making of postwar Japan 0582382165, 0582382157

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Paraliterary: The Making of Bad Readers in Postwar America 9780226474021

Literature departments are staffed by, and tend to be focused on turning out, “good” readers—attentive to nuance, aware

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Marshall Plan Modernism: Italian Postwar Abstraction and the Beginnings of Autonomia 9780822373681

Focusing on the work of Italian artists Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, and Piero Manzoni, Jaleh Mansoor demonstrates and

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Tanaka: The Making of Postwar Japan 0582382165, 9780582382169

Kakuei Tanaka was the most powerful politician in Japan for nearly two decades, and his followers have dominated Japanes

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Making Architecture The Getty Center

This volume completes the documentation of the planning, design, and construction of the Getty Center begun in The Getty

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Modernism in Italian architecture, 1890-1940 9780262050388

Richard Etlin's sweeping, generously illustrated study explores the changing idea of modernism in Italian architect

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