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10%OFFMichelangelo Sabatino - Pride in Modesty - 9781442612822 - V9781442612822
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Pride in Modesty

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Description for Pride in Modesty Paperback. Pride in Modesty argues that ordinary, often anonymous, everyday things inspired and transformed Italian art and architecture from the 1920s through the 1970s. Num Pages: 336 pages, maps, figures. BIC Classification: AM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 224 x 158 x 21. Weight in Grams: 498.

Following Italy's unification in 1861, architects, artists, politicians, and literati engaged in volatile debates over the pursuit of national and regional identity. Growing industrialization and urbanization across the country contrasted with the rediscovery of traditionally built forms and objects created by the agrarian peasantry. Pride in Modesty argues that these ordinary, often anonymous, everyday things inspired and transformed Italian art and architecture from the 1920s through the 1970s.

Through in-depth examinations of texts, drawings, and buildings, Michelangelo Sabatino finds that the folk traditions of the pre-industrial countryside have provided formal, practical, and poetic inspiration directly affecting both design and construction ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442612822
SKU
V9781442612822
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99-1

About Michelangelo Sabatino
Michelangelo Sabatino is professor and director of the PhD program in the College of Architecture of the Illinois Institute of Technology

Reviews for Pride in Modesty
‘Pride in Modesty brings a valuable new perspective to the scholarship on Italian modernism. Sabatino unquestionably establishes the vernacular as a major feature of Italian modernism and invites scholars to reconsider the topography of inter-war and post-war Italian architecture, which has far too long been defined by a narrow cannon of exemplars.’
Lucy Maulsby
Canadian Art Review: vol35:02:10 ... Read more

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