Adolf Loos

Ornament & Crime

Selected Essays

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Contains thirty-six original essays by the celebrated Viennese architect, Adolf Loos (1870-1933). Most deal with questions of design in a wide range of areas, from architecture and furniture, to clothes and jewellery, pottery, plumbing, and printing; others are polemics on craft education and training, and on design in general. Loos, the great cultural reformer and moralist in the history of European architecture and design was always a 'revolutionary against the revolutionaries'. With his assault on Viennese arts and crafts and his conflict with bourgeois morality, he managed to offend the whole country. His 1908 essay 'Ornament and Crime',… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Mitchell, Michael (Übers.)

ISBN: 978-1-57241-046-6
EAN: 9781572410466
Produktnummer: 5052844
Verlag: Ariadne Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1997
Seitenangabe: 204 S.
Masse: H21.7 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.3 cm 306 g
Gewicht: 306
Sonstiges: General (US: Trade)

Über den Autor

Michael Mitchell (Translator), was the winner of the 1998 Schlegel-Tieck Prize, is a distinguished literary translator, with a special interest in Austrian culture. Other translations include: Meyrink, The Golem; Kubin, The Other Side; Grimmelshausen, The Adventures of Simplicissimus.