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Loos cannon

LOOS CANNON

Design and Crime (And Other Diatribes), by Hal Foster. Now York: Verso. IM pages. $23.

There is nothing the design world welcomes more than a good diatribe. In fact, design has always relied on such tracts as its motors of change. Hal Foster's Design and Crime is therefore exactly the kind of book the design world should want. Its title is an earnest, if not altogether felicitous, allusion to Adolf Loos's dark but influential essay from 1908, "Ornament and Crime," in which Loos, in a twisted Viennese version of modernist renunciation, attacks the expressive excesses of Art Nouveau and, by extension, form itself. (In Loos, however, one is witnessing the struggle of space to ...

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