however, consider that to be a regressive. I will not subscribe to the argument that ornament increases the pleasure of the life of a cultivated person, or the argument which covers itself with the words: “But if the ornament is beautiful! ...” To me, and to all the...
Ornament and Crime began as a lecture delivered by Adolf Loos in 1910 in response to a time (the late 19th and early 20th Centuries) and a place (Vienna), in which Art Nouveau was the status quo. Loos used the essay as a vehicle to explain his distain of "ornament" in favour of "...
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鈥淎ll art is erotic鈥 Adolf Loos, Henry van de Velde, Ornament and Crimedoi:10.1515/9783110420142-013Ole W. Fischer