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1 online resource (289 pages) |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Intro -- Introduction -- 1. A Wandering Ship -- 2. The Machine in the Pampas -- 3. The Peronist Unconscious -- 4. Eternal Returns -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Index |
| Summary |
Throughout the early twentieth century, waves of migration brought working-class people to the outskirts of Buenos Aires. This prompted a dilemma: Where to situate these restive populations relative to the city's spatial politics? Might housing serve as a tool to discipline their behavior? Enter Antonio Bonet, a Catalan architect inspired by the transatlantic modernist and surrealist movements. Ana María León follows Bonet's decades-long, state-backed quest to house Buenos Aires's diverse and fractious population. Working with totalitarian and populist regimes, Bonet developed three large-scale housing plans, each scuttled as a new government took over. Yet these incomplete plans--Bonet's dreams--teach us much about the relationship between modernism and state power. Modernity for the Masses finds in Bonet's projects the disconnect between modern architecture's discourse of emancipation and the reality of its rationalizing control. Although he and his patrons constantly glorified the people and depicted them in housing plans, Bonet never consulted them. Instead he succumbed to official and elite fears of the people's latent political power. In careful readings of Bonet's work, León discovers the progressive erasure of surrealism's psychological sensitivity, replaced with an impulse, realized in modernist design, to contain the increasingly empowered population. |
| Local Note |
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Bonet Castellana, Antoni, 1913-1989 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Bonet Castellana, Antoni, 1913-1989. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Architecture and society -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- History -- 20th century.
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Architecture and society. |
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Argentina -- Buenos Aires. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Unbuilt architectural projects -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- History -- 20th century.
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Unbuilt architectural projects. |
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Housing -- Political aspects -- Argentina -- Buenos Aires -- History -- 20th century.
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Housing -- Political aspects. |
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Housing. |
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History. |
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ARCHITECTURE / History / General. |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: León, Ana María Modernity for the Masses Austin : University of Texas Press,c2021 9781477321782 |
| ISBN |
1477321799 |
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9781477321799 (electronic book) |
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