Call for Papers: Who Owns Heritage?
(Extended deadline: April 22) Call for Papers: Who Owns Heritage? Local Communities and the Fight for Historical Monuments in the 19th and 20th Centuries. Masaryk University Brno, Czechia, 6 November
Visions of the Future: Modern Architecture, Catholicism, and the State in Central Europe, 1918–1939
Mezi nejvýraznější příklady modernistické architektury patří kostely, přesto byly jen zřídka předmětem rozsáhlé kritické analýzy. V knize Visions of the Future: Modern Architecture, Catholicism, and the State in Central Europe, 1918–1939 (vydané nakladatelstvím Penn State University Press) poskytuje Matthew Rampley právě takovou analýzu, která se zaměřuje na katolickou církev v meziválečném Rakousku, Československu a Maďarsku. Bližší popis knihy naleznete v článku níže v anglickém jazyce.
A powerful institution in the Habsburg Empire, the Catholic Church continued to be a central social, political, and cultural agent after 1918, working in alliance with political parties and national governments to promote visions of a new national culture. As a result, church building took on an important ideological and political function. Rampley’s study is set against the backdrop of two interrelated issues: the role of architecture in the Catholic Church’s response to an increasingly secular modernity, and church architecture as part of the Church’s attempts to shape social and political life in the states that emerged after the collapse of Austria-Hungary. Rampley also examines the aesthetic, cultural, and political contexts that informed architectural projects, including the conflict between Catholicism and social democracy, the embrace of fascism, Catholic theories of technology, and discourses of regionalism and ruralism.
In bringing to light an untold chapter in the history of modern architecture, this book also engages in methodological reflection on the implications of the study of modern church architecture for the historiography of modernism. This book will appeal to students and scholars of architectural history, religious and political history, and interwar Central European history.