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11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 15 For example, Werner Durth and Niels Gutschow, Architektur und Stiidtebau der filnfziger Jahre, Schriftenreihe des Deutschen Nationalkomitees fiir Denkmalschutz, vol. 33 (Bonn, 1987), and Museum der Gegenwart, exhibition catalogue (Dusseldorf, 1987); Klaus von Beyme, Der Wiederaufbau: Architektur und Stiidtebaupolitik in heiden deutschen Staaten (Munich, 1987). Part of von Beyme's work is presented in the present volume (see Chapter 13). For reasons of space it was not possible to include the papers by Teresa Zarebska, 'The Development of Concepts in the Reconstruction and Rebuilding of Bombed Cities in Poland'; Erik Lorange, 'The Reconstruction of the War-Damaged Towns in Norway, on the Outskirts of Europe'; Hartmut Frank, '3Mal Wiederaufbau' and 'Die architektonische Gestaltung eines Neubeginns'; and Fabrizio Brunetti, 'Sulla ricostruzione postbellica in ltalia con particolare riguardo al caso di Firenze'.

This is first of all due to the fact that the vague authoritarian impulses of the regime of the 'Revolution nationale' could not keep up the illusion and conceal its own contradictions concerning aesthetics. The wish to redefine a return to tradition did not mean that it could formulate a Marechalist aesthetics. Recent research in the field of the arts under the Occupation has suggested that we should consider the possibility that reconstruction projects between 1940 and 1944 did not in the least define a proper Marechalist style.

For example, apart from the work by Kopp already mentioned, see Images, enjeux et discours de Ia Reconstruction, ed. Daniele Voldman, Cahiers de l'IHTP, no. 5 (July 1987). Fran~ois Bloch-Lain~ and Jean Bouvier, La France restauree 19441954: Dialogue sur les choix d'une modernisation (Paris, 1986). Both quotations in the paragraph are from the foreword, pp. 7 and 8. Discussion with P. Dufournet by R. Baudoui, 17 December 1982. Daniele Voldman, 'Aux origines du Ministere de Ia reconstruction', Les Trois Reconstructions: 1919-1940-1945, Dossiers et documents de l'Institut fran~ais d'architecture, nr 4 (December 1983).

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