دانلود کتاب Modernism with a Human Face: Synthesis of Art and Architecture in Eastern Europe, 1954-1958

The “synthesis of the arts,” which usually referred to the integration of murals, sculptures
and reliefs into architecture, was a key aspect of art and architecture in many parts of the world
during the 1950s, from Western Europe to Latin America. It was intended to “humanize” the
increasingly industrialized modern architecture, while providing art with a platform from which
to act outside of the confines of museums and galleries, in the “real” space of society. More
importantly, the concept centered on the collaboration between people of different skills and
backgrounds, such as artists, architects and craftspeople, who ought to form a cohesive creative
community in order for synthesis to emerge. For this reason, the synthesis of the arts was often
envisioned as a metaphor for the greater social order of the postwar period and thus, as will be
argued here, became particularly prominent in periods of political transition.