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Paperback Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy Book

ISBN: 1442612827

ISBN13: 9781442612822

Pride in Modesty: Modernist Architecture and the Vernacular Tradition in Italy

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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...

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