Taschen Adolf Loos 8 bursting onto a scene dominated

bursting onto a scene dominated by Abstract Expressionism in late 1950s New York and defining a new art vocabulary for a new era

Taken over the course of an epic eight-year expedition

which killed two of its leading artists

Deep chocolate

Made in Tunisia

Taschen Adolf Loos 8 bursting onto a scene dominatedAn early, impassioned advocate of modernism, he all out rejected the grand Secessionist aesthetic prevalent at the time, as well as any hallmarks of the European fin de sicle. Instead, in lectures and essays, such as the milestone Ornament and Crime of 1908, Loos articulated his passion for smooth and precious surfaces. He advocated that architectural ornamentation was, by its nature, ephemerallocked into current trends and styles, and therefore