| Fashioning Vienna: Adolf Loos's Cultural Criticism Contributor(s): Stewart, Janet (Author) |
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ISBN: 0415221773 ISBN-13: 9780415221771 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $71.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2000 Annotation: This book seeks 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 century. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - Urban - Architecture | Individual Architects & Firms - General - Architecture | History - General |
| Dewey: 720.92 |
| LCCN: 99088062 |
| Physical Information: 0.56" H x 6.34" W x 9.16" (1.02 lbs) 236 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This 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. |