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Who is Mr Viktor Kovačić?; A History of Critical Thought about the Architect Viktor Kovačić from 1896 to 1943; Zlatko Jurić
Darko Kahle
Abstract
The monograph Who is Mr Viktor Kovačić K.H.A.? (Croatian) is the natural sequel of the monograph Architect Viktor Kovačić: Life and Work issued in 2003. Jurić tackles the critical reception of the architect’s work in the period 1896-1945 juxtaposed with architect’s writings, including the seminal article Modern Architecture issued in 1900. He further analyses the dichotomy between the disregarding attitudes predominantly given by Iso Kršnjavi following by his entourage and generally accolade attitudes from the first modern architectural critics as Vladimir Lunaček, Kosta Strajnić or Ljubomir Micić, to finally conclude that Viktor Kovačić was a truly Modernist, torn between expectations and misunderstandings of the Croatian society of its time. The monograph contains inventoried texts written by the architect himself, further comprises an anthology of critical texts about the architect from the period 1896-1943. The monograph serves as a valuable compendium of material published long time ago in a different number of sources, today not so easily available elsewhere. [Translated by the author]
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230995
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Publication date:
31.12.2019.
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