Competing visions : aesthetic invention and social imagination in Central European architecture, 1867-1918 /
Ákos Moravánszky.
- xv, 508 pages : illustrations (some colour), maps ; 28 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-473) and index.
Preface -- Introduction: The Identity of an Imaginary Region -- The City as Political Monument -- Antiquarian and Individualist Historicism -- Art Nouveau: The Will to Style -- Imperial Realism: The Aesthetics of the Wagner Circle -- The Search for a National Style -- The Ornament: Salvation or Crime? -- Folded Facades: Cubism and Empathy -- Classicism as Style, Classicism as Attitude -- The Architecture of Social Reform -- Notes -- Illustration Credits -- Name index -- Subject Index. Ch. 1. Ch. 2. Ch. 3. Ch. 4. Ch. 5. Ch. 6. Ch. 7. Ch. 8. Ch. 9. Ch. 10.
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Architecture--Europe, Central Architecture--Europe, Central--19th century. Architecture--Europe, Central--20th century.