Free Delivery Over $100
|
|
|||
|
||||
OverviewIn recent years there has been a surge of interest in the Viennese architect, essayist, lecturer, and sometime art patron, Adolf Loos. 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. Focusing on the sense of paradox which structured Loos's thought allows this book to introduce a new Loos, simultaneously modern and traditional, who functioned as a sensitive barometer of conflicts played out in fin-de-siecle Vienna. Fashioning Vienna is based on original research and informed by an interdisciplinary approach. 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Janet StewartPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd Imprint: Routledge Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.589kg ISBN: 9780415221764ISBN 10: 0415221765 Pages: 236 Publication Date: 01 June 2000 Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Tertiary & Higher Education , Undergraduate Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsReviewsWhile Adolf Loos is well known as one of the key representatives of early modernist architectures, holding his own next to such figures as Louis Sullivan, Frank lloyd Wright and Otto Wagner, a wider public does not yet know the scope of his work and writings. Janet Stewart's fascinating new study fianlly provides a corrective to this limited and specialized reception of Loos. -Modernism/Modernity Stewarts book marks a departure from previous exploratons of Loo's writings... Stewart offers a remarkably lucid, nuanced and often perceptive account of Loo's texts and their cultural frame. Her meticulously crafted analysis operates, she tells us, through the parallel processes of decosntruction, assemblage and reconstruction. ... This method works very well in documenting the oppositions that underlie much of Loo's thought....perhaps the most complete and sharply drawn picture to date in English of Loos as cultural critic. -Harvard Design Magazine A thorough and engaging book....Stewart's book is an important and welcome contribution to the scholarly literature on Loos, for it is the first comprehensive study of his texts that seriously attempts to account for their contradictory and paradoxical nature in a positive manner....Stewart's book provides rich material for understanding Loos's cultural criticism and should inspire further work on how such criticism relates to his architecture and to other fields for which modernity and modernism are important yet problematic concepts. - Centropa: A Journal of Central European Art and Architecture While Adolf Loos is well known as one of the key representatives of early modernist architectures, holding his own next to such figures as Louis Sullivan, Frank lloyd Wright and Otto Wagner, a wider public does not yet know the scope of his work and writings. Janet Stewart's fascinating new study fianlly provides a corrective to this limited and specialized reception of Loos. <br>-Modernism/Modernity <br> Stewarts book marks a departure from previous exploratons of Loo's writings... Stewart offers a remarkably lucid, nuanced and often perceptive account of Loo's texts and their cultural frame. Her meticulously crafted analysis operates, she tells us, through the parallel processes of decosntruction, assemblage and reconstruction. ... This method works very well in documenting the oppositions that underlie much of Loo's thought....perhaps the most complete and sharply drawn picture to date in English of Loos as cultural critic. <br>-Harvard Design Magazine <br> A thorough and engaging book....Stewart's book is an important and welcome contribution to the scholarly literature on Loos, for it is the first comprehensive study of his texts that seriously attempts to account for their contradictory and paradoxical nature in a positive manner....Stewart's book provides rich material for understanding Loos's cultural criticism and should inspire further work on how such criticism relates to his architecture and to other fields for which modernity and modernism are important yet problematic concepts. <br>- Centropa: A Journal of Central European Art and Architecture <br> While Adolf Loos is well known as one of the key representatives of early modernist architectures, holding his own next to such figures as Louis Sullivan, Frank lloyd Wright and Otto Wagner, a wider public does not yet know the scope of his work and writings. Janet Stewart's fascinating new study fianlly provides a corrective to this limited and specialized reception of Loos. -Modernism/Modernity Stewarts book marks a departure from previous exploratons of Loo's writings... Stewart offers a remarkably lucid, nuanced and often perceptive account of Loo's texts and their cultural frame. Her meticulously crafted analysis operates, she tells us, through the parallel processes of decosntruction, assemblage and reconstruction. ... This method works very well in documenting the oppositions that underlie much of Loo's thought....perhaps the most complete and sharply drawn picture to date in English of Loos as cultural critic. -Harvard Design Magazine A thorough and engaging book....Stewart's book is an important and welcome contribution to the scholarly literature on Loos, for it is the first comprehensive study of his texts that seriously attempts to account for their contradictory and paradoxical nature in a positive manner....Stewart's book provides rich material for understanding Loos's cultural criticism and should inspire further work on how such criticism relates to his architecture and to other fields for which modernity and modernism are important yet problematic concepts. - Centropa: A Journal of Central European Art and Architecture Author InformationJanet Stewart is Lecturer in German at the University of Aberdeen, where she also contributes to the teaching of Cultural History. In association with the University of Edinburgh, she is involved in establishing a Centre for Austrian Studies in Aberdeen. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
||||
