
Margret Hoppe. The Promise of Modernism
- Publisher
- Scheidegger & Spiess
- Year
- 2014
- ISBN
- 9783858814616
- Specifications
- Hardcover
96 pages
Two essays and a conversation with the artist
Published for a solo exhibition at Museum der bildenden Kuenste, Leipzig
A promising new voice in European photographic art, this book features a series offering a perspective on a famous architect's buildings that refers to his concept of modern architecture laid out nearly a century ago. The images show exposed concrete, the clarity of geometric shapes, and emblematic polychrome surfaces as symbols of the buildings, investigating what remains today of these visions of architectural modernism, now that its legacy is in many cases adored as a monument rather than actually used and appreciated as a functional piece.