Fashioning Vienna: Adolf Loos's Cultural CriticismThis book seeks, through an examination of the form and content of his texts, to extend our understanding of Adolf Loos and his role in the struggle to define the nature of modernity in Vienna at the turn of the nineteenth century. It makes extensive use of primary sources including archive material and newspaper reports, which serve to shed new light on the way in which Loos's writings are embedded in their socio-cultural context. Drawing on insights from German and Austrian studies, sociology and cultural history, this book offers a genuinely interdisciplinary approach to a figure who himself operated in an interdisciplinary fashion. |
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Adolf Loos Altenberg America appeared architect architecture argument aristocracy artisan Arts and Crafts Austrian Museum Austro-Hungary avant-garde Benjamin bourgeois bourgeoisie building Cacciari capitalist century characterised city centre Classical Antiquity collection consumption context Crafts Movement criticises cultural forms demonstrates describes dialectic Die Zeit difference emphasise English Gentleman essay example figure flâneur focuses Frankfurter Zeitung function Germanic culture Glück Heimatkunst homogeneous ideal of Vornehmheit illustrations interior journal Karl Kraus labour leere gesprochen located Loos argues Loos’s analysis Loos’s critique Loos’s cultural criticism Loos’s ideal Loos’s lectures Loos’s texts Loos’s thought Loos’s Vienna Loos’s writings men’s Michaelerplatz money economy nature of Loos’s Neue Freie Presse objects Opel Ornament and crime paradox Peasant Peter Altenberg production Provinzkunst published recognise relationship represents Ringstraße role Rukschcio and Schachel sense signified Simmel social society sphere style suburbs suggests symbolic Trotzdem turn Vienna Viennese Wiener Wiener Werkstätte women’s clothing women’s fashion Wurstelprater Zeit