Chandigarh's Le Corbusier : the struggle for modernity in postcolonial India /
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| Author / Creator: | Prakash, Vikramaditya. |
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| Imprint: | Seattle : University of Washington Press ; [Ahmedabad, India : Mapin Pub.], c2002. |
| Description: | viii, 179 p. : ill. (some col), 1 map ; 26 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Studies in modernity and national identity |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4755324 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: The "East-West" Opposition in Chandigarh's Le Corbusier
- 2. The Master Plan: Contesting Conceptions of the Modern
- 3. The Capitol Complex: The Rousseauesque Garden of Eden
- 4. The Capitol Buildings: The Aesthetics of the High Court and the Assembly
- 5. With Open Hands: Architectural Symbolism and the Vagaries of Political Claims
- 6. Afterword: Notes on Inheriting a Postcolonial Modernism
- Notes
- Chronology
- Bibliography
- Index
- Illustration Credits
