Main entry:

Loos, Adolf, 1870-1933, author.

Title & Author:

Ornament and crime : selected essays / Adolf Loos ; selected and with an introduction by Adolf Opel ; translated by Michael Mitchell.

Publication:

Riverside, Calif. : Ariadne Press, [1998]
©1998

Description:

204 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Series:

Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought. Translation series

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.

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.

ISBN:

1572410469 (paperback)
9781572410466 (paperback)

Subject:

Decorative arts Europe History 19th century.
Decorative arts Europe History 20th century.
Arts décoratifs Europe Histoire 19e siècle.
Arts décoratifs Europe Histoire 20e siècle.
Decorative arts.
Europe.

Form/genre:

Essays.
History.

Added entries:

Opel, Adolf, 1935-
Studies in Austrian literature, culture, and thought. Translation series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 206942
Call No.: NA44.L863.A35 1998
Status: Available