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EDINBURGH: Edinburgh College of Art
CENTENARY LECTURE SERIES GIVEN BY PROFESSOR JOSEPH MASHECK, CENTENARY
FELLOW AND VISITING PROFESSOR OF HISTORY OF ART
Professor Masheck is an eminent American art critic and art historian
and is the Colleges Centenary Fellow and Visiting Professor of History
of Art.
This series of three lectures developed out of Professor Mashecks
earlier lectures at the College in 1999 and 2003, on aspects of the work
of Adolf Loos (1870-1933), the early modern Viennese architect.
Both previous lectures had American connections. But this new series will
focus on Loos as a vital figure in the formation of European modernism.
Loos has stirred interest as a renegade figure in cultural history, mostly
for his condemnation of ornament by comparing it with tattoo as essentially
transgressive for a modern European; and he is also known to have claimed
that almost no buildings should count as art. These and other critical
tantrums led to his being considered an anti-architect; but the governing
theme in the lectures is that Loos was really a great artist-architect
who defended his essentially modern position with wit and flair.
5 Mar: The Ornamental in Loosian Theory & Practise
This lecture deals mainly with problems and consequences of Looss
tattoo and non-architecture ideas.
12 Mar: Formalism, Functionalism & The Wittgenstein House as
Loosian
This lecture re-thinks the question of a famous house which the philosopher
Ludwig Wittgenstein designed for his sister, as related to the work of
Loos.
19 Mar: Adolf Loos, Architecturelessness & The Sustainability
of Art
This lecture concerns the architects overlooked work in middle-class
and proletarian housing, and implications of such works for a possible
green Loos.
ALL LECTURES ARE FREE AND WILL BE GIVEN IN THE LECTURE THEATRE, MAIN BUILDING,
EDINBURGH COLLEGE OF ART, COMMENCING AT 6PM.
Refreshments will be served afterwards.
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