A Portrait of the Artist as an Adolf Loos Campaigner

Joyceans should know that there is a largely unknown document signed by James Joyce in the manuscript collection of the municipal library of Vienna, Austria, which was discovered recently by Andreas Weigel. In the typescript, written in French, Joyce praises "the great architect Adolf Loos"...

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Published in:James Joyce quarterly 2006-10, Vol.42/43 (1-4), p.315
Main Authors: Rathjen, Friedhelm, Weigel, Andreas
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Aesthetics
Architecture
Documents
Joyce, James (1882-1941)
Library collections
Loos, Adolf
Writers
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Summary:Joyceans should know that there is a largely unknown document signed by James Joyce in the manuscript collection of the municipal library of Vienna, Austria, which was discovered recently by Andreas Weigel. In the typescript, written in French, Joyce praises "the great architect Adolf Loos" for being "one of the greatest benefactors of mankind" and for having "delivered his contemporaries from the slavery of superfluous labor."
ISSN:0021-4183
1938-6036