16 results for '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...

Walter Benjamin has become a decisive reference point for a whole range of critical disciplines, as he constructed a unique and provocative synthesis of aesthetics, politics and philosophy. Examining...

The Krupp family are a prominent German dynasty from Essen and are famous for their steel production and the manufacture of ammunitions and armaments. This book provides the first genuine critical...

"Blood of the Emperors" is an exhilarating mix of history, mystery, and romance. It is a captivating blend of a contemporary adventure story and well researched historical fact.For Dan...

In the mind of a mad man everything he believes is true. He also believes the innocent are guilty and they must be destroyed for their sins. This story takes place in a time when one race was...

While recovering from his injuries in World War One in 1916, a 38-year-old German scholar named Artur Dinter wrote a novel that would become highly influential-not the least, through a young...

Knut Hamsun (August 4, 1859 - February 19, 1952) was a Norwegian writer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1920. Hamsun's work spans more than 70 years and shows variation with regard...

Ernst L. Freud (1892-1970) was a son of Sigmund Freud and the father of painter Lucian Freud and the late Sir Clement Freud, politician and broadcaster. After his studies in Munich and Vienna, where...

Puesto que la siguió durante toda su vida, Richard Neutra (1892-1970) debía apreciar la máxima de Sócrates, el gran filósofo griego: "una vida sin examen no tiene objeto de vivirla para el hombre"...