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

by Michelangelo Sabatino

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442612827
• ISBN13: 9781442612822
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"