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Modernity and Early Cultures

Reconsidering non western references for modern architecture in a cross-cultural perspective

by Anna Minta (Volume editor) Bernd Nicolai (Volume editor)
©2011 Conference proceedings 236 Pages
Series: Neue Berner Schriften zur Kunst, Volume 12

Summary

At the beginning of the 20th century, the discovery of early cultures exerted a formative influence on modern architecture. Discussions on early civilizations in the Middle East, South-East Asia, and the pre-Columbian cultures of North and South America as well as new perceptions of archaism and primitivism revolutionized the production of art and architecture.
In this anthology, European and North and South American scholars from various fields address art and architectural theory to show the avant-garde’s historical relation to archaeology and its influence on the development of Modernism. Contributors include Can Bilsel (San Diego), Luis E. Carranza (Rhode Island), Johannes Cramer (Berlin), Christian Freigang (Frankfurt), Maria P. Gindhart (Atlanta), Jorge F. Liernur (Buenos Aires), Anna Minta (Bern), and Bernd Nicolai (Bern).

Details

Pages
236
Year
2011
ISBN (PDF)
9783035102055
ISBN (Softcover)
9783034305082
DOI
10.3726/978-3-0351-0205-5
Language
English
Publication date
2011 (July)
Keywords
archaism primitivism influence art
Published
Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt am Main, New York, Oxford, Wien, 2011. 236 pp., num. coloured and b/w ill.

Biographical notes

Anna Minta (Volume editor) Bernd Nicolai (Volume editor)

Anna Minta is Assistant Professor of Architectural History and Preservation at Bern University, Department of Art History. Her research concentrates on architecture and political representation in the 19th and 20th century in Europe, Israel and the United States. In 2004 she published Israel Bauen. Architektur, Städtebau und Denkmalpolitik nach der Staatsgründung 1948. Bernd Nicolai is Professor of Architectural History and Preservation at Bern University, Department of Art History. His research focuses on art and architecture in the middle ages and the development after the industrial revolution. Among numerous articles on architecture and cultural transfer he published Moderne und Exil, Deutschsprachige Architekten in der Türkei 1925-1955 (1998).

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