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Ornament and Crime
Adolf Loos
其他書名
Selected Essays
出版Ariadne Press, 1998
主題Architecture / Individual Architects & Firms / GeneralArt / History / GeneralArt / Individual Artists / GeneralDesign / Decorative Arts
ISBN15724104699781572410466
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=-SxEbXFg7ZEC&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋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', mocked by an age in love with its accessories, has come to be recognised as a seminal work in combating the aesthetic imperialism of the turn of the century. Today Loos is recognised as one of the great masters of modern architecture.