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. |
Contents
Investigating and excavating | 10 |
The Other national cultural mythologies | 42 |
The Self social difference in Looss Vienna | 72 |
The display and disguise of difference | 98 |
Locating the narrative the city its artefacts and its attractions | 131 |
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Adolf Loos Albertina Altenberg America appeared architect architecture argument aristocracy artisan Arts and Crafts Austrian Museum avant-garde Benjamin Berlin bourgeois bourgeoisie building Cacciari capitalist century characterised city centre Classical Antiquity clothing collection consumption context Crafts Movement criticises cultural forms describes dialectic Die Zeit difference emphasises English Gentleman essay figure focuses Frankfurt a.M. Frankfurter Zeitung Frisby function Georg Simmel Germanic culture Glück Haus am Michaelerplatz Imperial Jubilee Exhibition interior journal Karl Kraus Kunst labour leere gesprochen located London 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 Michaelerplatz money economy Neue Freie Presse non-contemporaneity Opel Ornament and crime paradox Peter Altenberg Prachner production Provinzkunst published represents Ringstraße role Rukschcio and Schachel Schriften signified Simmel social society sphere St Stephen's Cathedral style suggests tion Trotzdem turn Verlag Viennese Wien Wiener Werkstätte women's fashion Wurstelprater Zeit