TY - JOUR
T1 - Against the wall : ideology and form in Mies van der Rohe's Monument to Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht
AU - Chapman, Michael
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - This essay looks at Mies van der Rohe’s 1926 Monument to Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht from the perspective of contemporaneous theories of Marxism, and particularly those of Luxemburg herself. The essay sets out to explore the political backdrop against which the monument was made, Mies’s own political allegiances at the time, and the symbolic and spatial implications of this influential architectural monument. The essay reflects on the relationship between avant-garde practices and Marxism, and the role of ideology in framing certain practices within architectural modernism.
AB - This essay looks at Mies van der Rohe’s 1926 Monument to Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht from the perspective of contemporaneous theories of Marxism, and particularly those of Luxemburg herself. The essay sets out to explore the political backdrop against which the monument was made, Mies’s own political allegiances at the time, and the symbolic and spatial implications of this influential architectural monument. The essay reflects on the relationship between avant-garde practices and Marxism, and the role of ideology in framing certain practices within architectural modernism.
UR - https://hdl.handle.net/1959.7/uws:71684
U2 - 10.1080/08935696.2017.1316121
DO - 10.1080/08935696.2017.1316121
M3 - Article
SN - 0893-5696
VL - 29
SP - 199
EP - 213
JO - Rethinking Marxism
JF - Rethinking Marxism
IS - 1
ER -