| Description |
1 online resource (290 pages) : illustrations. |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
International library of architecture ; 1
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International library of architecture ; 1.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-284) and index. |
| 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 literally in denying architecture as a fine art. Without normalizing his edgy radicality, Masheck argues that Loos' masterful "astylistic architecture" was an appreciation of tradition and utility and not, as most architectural historians have argued, a mere repudiation of the florid style of the Vienna Secession. Masheck reads Loos as a witty, ironic rhetorician who has all too often been taken at face value. |
| Contents |
Loos and fine art -- Loosian vernacular : an American case -- Loos and imperial New York -- Critique of ornament -- Architecture and ornament in fact -- Everybody's doric -- Architecturelessness and sustainable art -- The Wittgenstein house as Loosian -- Loos and minimalism. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Architecture, Modern -- 20th century.
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Architecture, Modern. |
| Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Individual architects & architectural firms. |
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ARCHITECTURE -- History -- Contemporary (1945- ) |
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ARCHITECTURE -- History -- Modern (late 19th Century to 1945) |
| Chronological Term |
1900-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Masheck, Joseph. Adolf Loos. London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2013 9781780764221 (OCoLC)809977213 |
| ISBN |
9780857721952 (electronic book) |
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085772195X (electronic book) |
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9780857733214 (electronic book) |
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0857733214 (electronic book) |
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1299639992 (electronic book) |
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9781299639997 (electronic book) |
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9781780764221 |
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1780764227 |
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9781780764238 |
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1780764235 |
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