Ornament and Crime

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Penguin UK, 30 трав. 2019 р. - 352 стор.

Revolutionary essays on design, aesthetics and materialism - from one of the great masters of modern architecture

Adolf Loos, the great Viennese pioneer of modern architecture, was a hater of the fake, the fussy and the lavishly decorated, and a lover of stripped down, clean simplicity. He was also a writer of effervescent, caustic wit, as shown in this selection of essays on all aspects of design and aesthetics, from cities to glassware, furniture to footwear, architectural training to why 'the lack of ornament is a sign of intellectual power'.

Translated by Shaun Whiteside
With an epilogue by Joseph Masheck

 

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Ornament and Crime: Selected Essays
Adolf Loos
Перегляд фрагмента - 1998

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Adolf Loos aesthetic American applied art architect architecture aristocrat Arnold Schönberg artist arts and crafts atavism Baroque beautiful become bicycle building cabinet-maker Catulle Mendès century chair civilization clothing coat colour contemporary copy costumes craftsman criminal culture decoration dress elegant English exhibition façade fact fake farmer Fashion Hat Association feel flâneurs foot-cloths forms furniture German glass Greek human imitation invention Jaray Jugendstil living Lombroso look Loos's Loosian Maori Maori ornament Masheck master material means modern Norfolk jacket objects one’s Ornament and Crime Otto Wagner painter painting palace Papuan parvenu peasant Peter Altenberg piece primitive principle of cladding produced Renaissance Rococo roof sculptor sense shoes social someone spirit stone style tailors tattoo things thought tribal trousers underwear unmodern Vienna Viennese wall wallpaper wardrobe wear whole Wiener Werkstätte wood Zhou dynasty

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Adolf Loos (1877-1933) was a leading Austro-Hungarian architect, perhaps most famous for the revolutionary 'Loos House' opposite the Hofburg Palace in Vienna, which caused outrage when it was built in 1912, and the wonderful American Bar, also in Vienna. He wrote extensively on architecture and design, working in reaction to the elaborate mass of decoration celebrated by the Vienna Secession movement.

Joseph Masheck, modern art and architectural historian and critic, and sometime editor-in-chief of Artforum, was awarded the 2018 Distinguished Lifetime Achievement Award for Writing on Artof the College Art Association.

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НазваOrnament and Crime
АвторAdolf Loos
ВидавецьPenguin UK, 2019
ISBN0141392983, 9780141392981
Обсяг352 стор.
  
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