Visions of the Future - Modern Architecture, Catholicism, and the State in Central Europe, 1918–1939

"Offers a novel interpretation of interwar architectural culture in central Europe, focusing on Catholic modernism in Austria, Hungary and Czechoslovakia. Examines how Catholic architecture developed in response to the challenges of modernity"--

About the author

Matthew Rampley is Professor of Art History at Masaryk University. He is the author or coeditor of numerous books, including The Vienna School of Art History: Empire and the Politics of Scholarship, 1847–1918, The Seductions of Darwin: Art, Evolution, Neuroscience, and The Museum Age in Austria-Hungary: Art and Empire in the Long Nineteenth Century, all published by Penn State University Press.

Product details

• Authors: Matthew Rampley, Rampley Matthew
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 10.06.2025
• EAN: 9780271099392
• ISBN: 978-0-271-09939-2
• Dimensions: 178 mm x 254 mm x 28 mm
• Weight: 816 g
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss, Raster, farbig
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Art history; 20th Century, ARCHITECTURE / History / General, History of Art, History of art & design styles: from c 1900 -, Central Europe, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, History of Architecture, Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960, ART / European / General, ART / Movements / Modernism