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Ornament and crime : selected essays
- Title
- Ornament and crime : selected essays / Adolf Loos ; selected and with an introduction by Adolf Opel ; translated by Michael Mitchell.
- Author
- Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933
- Publication
- Riverside, Calif. : Ariadne Press, [1998]
- ©1998
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Opel, Adolf, 1935-
- Description
- 204 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Summary
- "Ornament and Crime 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 jewelry, 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 recognized as a seminal work in combating the aesthetic imperialism of the turn of the century. Today Loos is recognized as one of the great masters of modern architecture". --Publisher.
- Series Statement
- Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought. Translation series
- Uniform Title
- Ornament und Verbrechen. English
- Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought. Translation series.
- Alternative Title
- Ornament und Verbrechen.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Adolf Opel -- 1. Our School of Applied Art -- 2. The Christmas Exhibition in the Austrian Museum -- 3. The Jubilee Exhibition: The Exhibition Buildings -- 4. The Silver Court and Neighboring Pavilion -- 5. Men's Fashion -- 6. The New Style and the Bronze Industry -- 7. Interior Design: Prelude -- 8. The Interiors in the Rotunda -- 9. Chairs -- 10. Glass and China -- 11. Luxury Carriages -- 12. Plumbers: Baths and Kitchen Ranges -- 13. Gentlemen's Hats -- 14. Footwear -- 15. Shoemakers -- 16. Ladies' Fashion -- 17. Underwear -- 18. Furniture -- 19. The Furniture of 1898 -- 20. Printers -- 21. A Review of the Applied Arts I -- 22. A Review of the Applied Arts II.
- Call Number
- JQZ 12-1972
- ISBN
- 1572410469
- 9781572410466
- LCCN
- 97017178
- OCLC
- 36883998
- Author
- Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933, author.
- Title
- Ornament and crime : selected essays / Adolf Loos ; selected and with an introduction by Adolf Opel ; translated by Michael Mitchell.
- Publisher
- Riverside, Calif. : Ariadne Press, [1998]
- Copyright Date
- ©1998
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought. Translation seriesStudies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought. Translation series.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1800-1999
- Added Author
- Opel, Adolf, 1935-
- Research Call Number
- JQZ 12-1972