Book Details
Format
Paperback
Pages
220
Language
German
Published
Jan 1, 1997
Publisher
Prachner Verlag
ISBN-10
3853670369
ISBN-13
9783853670361
Description
The Vienna Jubilee Exhibition of 1898 provided the occasion for these remarkable essays by the Austrian architect, theorist, and irreverent critic of his own culture, Adolf Loos. The rational underpinnings of his later accusation that "ornament is crime," first appear in these polemical thrusts at the stylized work of Viennese sucessionists Joseph Hoffmann, Otto Wagner, Hermann Obrist, and Gustav Klimt, among others.