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Building a New New World Amerikanizm in Russian Architecture
ISBN: PB: 9780300248159, Yale University Press, November 2020
450 pp., 24.1x17.1 cm, 450 colour and black&white illus.
Idealized representations of America, as both an aspiration and a menace, played an important role in shaping Russian architecture and urban design from the American Revolution until the fall of the Soviet Union. Jean-Louis Cohen traces the powerful...
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Architecture in Uniform Designing and Building for the Second World War
ISBN: HB: 9782754105309, Yale University Press, April 2011
448 pp., 24.6x17.8 cm, 300 illus.
This fascinating book offers a new perspective on the architectural history of the Second World War, which in previous accounts has most often been viewed as a hiatus between peaceful periods of production. Jean-Louis Cohen contends instead that duri...
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Modern Architecture in Czechoslovakia and Other Writings
ISBN: PB: 9780892365968, Getty Publications, March 2006
384 pp., 25.5x17.8 cm, 328 black&white illus.
Karel Teige (1900-1951) was a graphic designer, critic, and Czech partisan who in 1920 founded a group to promote modernism in the international sphere through polemics and manifestos. This is a translation of Karel Teige's 1930 publication that brou...
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Russian Modernism The Collections of the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities, Part 1
ISBN: PB: 9780892363858, Getty Publications, March 2006
208 pp., 25.5x18 cm, 16 colour illus., 20 black&white illus.
This comprehensive bibliography of the Russian Modernist holdings of the Getty Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities comprises both published and unpublished material dating from approximately 1905 to 1941, an era that saw unpr...
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