Adolf Loos : the art of architecture / Joseph Masheck.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Masheck, Joseph.

Series:

International library of architecture ; 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and architecture.

Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933--Criticism and interpretation.

Loos, Adolf.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (320 p.)

Place of Publication:

London : I.B. Tauris, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Widely regarded as one of the most significant prophets of modern architecture, Adolf Loos was a celebrity in his own day. His work was emblematic of the turn-of-the-century generation that was torn between the traditional culture of the nineteenth century and the innovative modernism of the twentieth. His essay 'Ornament and Crime' equated superfluous ornament and 'decorative arts' with tattooing in an attempt to tell modern Europeans that they should know better. But the negation of ornament was supposed to reveal, not negate, good style; and an incorrigible ironist has been taken too litera

Contents:

Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; 1. Loos and Fine Art; 2. Loosian Vernacular; 3. Loos and Imperial New York; 4. Critique of Ornament; 5. Architecture and Ornament in Fact; 6. Everybody's Doric; 7. Architecturelessness and Sustainable Art; 8. The Wittgenstein House as Loosian; 9. Loos and Minimalism; Notes; Works Cited; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780857733214

0857733214

9780857721952

085772195X