Janet Stewart

Fashioning Vienna (eBook, ePUB)

Adolf Loos's Cultural Criticism

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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 nineteenth century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134737697
• Artikelnr.: 49376423

Autorenporträt

Janet 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.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations. Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. Investigating and
Excavating. 2. The Other: National Cultural Mythologies. 3. The Self:
Social Difference in Loos's Vienna. 4. The Display and Disguise of
Difference. 5. Locating the Narrative: The City, its Artefacts and its
Attractions. Conclusion: The Non-Contemporaneity of Loos's Critique. Notes.
Bibliography. Index.