TY - JOUR
T1 - Book Review: The Judicious Eye: Architecture Against the Other Arts
AU - Hartoonian, Gevork
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - No contemporary account of architecture's rapport with other arts will do justice without considering Adolf Loos's remarks on the subject. Exasperated by the Secessionist and Art Nouveau movements, and the utopia claims underpinning the objectives of reformist schools of the time, Loos made a modernist distinction between art and architecture. In his opinion, art has no responsibility to anybody, and thus it can be radical or even revolutionary. Architecture, instead, is responsible to everybody, and there is a purpose to it, a public one. This was enough reason for Loos to paint the art of building as both a conservative and collective practice.
AB - No contemporary account of architecture's rapport with other arts will do justice without considering Adolf Loos's remarks on the subject. Exasperated by the Secessionist and Art Nouveau movements, and the utopia claims underpinning the objectives of reformist schools of the time, Loos made a modernist distinction between art and architecture. In his opinion, art has no responsibility to anybody, and thus it can be radical or even revolutionary. Architecture, instead, is responsible to everybody, and there is a purpose to it, a public one. This was enough reason for Loos to paint the art of building as both a conservative and collective practice.
U2 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13264820902741037
DO - https://doi.org/10.1080/13264820902741037
M3 - Book/Film/Article review
VL - 14
SP - 94
EP - 100
JO - Architectural Theory Review
JF - Architectural Theory Review
SN - 1326-4826
IS - 1
ER -