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Chapter 8: Geopolitics of Fame
Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
Description: Alvar Aalto: Architecture, Modernity, and Geopolitics
Alvar Aalto: Architecture, Modernity, and Geopolitics
Foreign critics discovered Aalto in about 1930, when the Stockholm Exhibition drew attention to Scandinavia’s nascent modernist movement...
Author
Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
PublisherYale University Press
Copyright© 2009 by Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen
Related print edition pages: pp.159-179
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00347.9
Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-23392
Chapter subject tags:Aalto, Alvar, 1898-1976Architecture, Modern--20th centuryArchitecture--Finland--20th centuryGiedion, S. (Sigfried), 1888-1968Architect-designed furniture--20th centuryMuseum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)

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Chapter 8: Geopolitics of Fame