Against the wall: ideology and form in Mies van der Rohe's monument to Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht

Title: Against the wall: ideology and form in Mies van der Rohe's monument to Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht
Creator: Chapman, Michael
Relation: Rethinking Marxism: a journal of economics, culture and society Vol. 29, Issue 1, p. 199-213
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/08935696.2017.1316121
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2017
Description: 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.
Subject: Avant-Garde; Berlin; Rosa Luxemburg; Marxist monuments; Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1351408
Identifier: uon:30703
Identifier: ISSN:0893-5696
Language: eng
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