Ornament and Crime
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"Ornament and Crime" is an essay and lecture by modernist architect Adolf Loos that criticizes ornament in useful objects.
Adolf Loos
The Indigenous peoples of Papua New Guinea and of Western New Guinea in Indonesia, commonly called Papuans, are Melanesians. There is genetic evidence for two major historical lineages in New Guinea a
Ornament and Crime
…ornament, describing it as "degenerate", its suppression as necessary for regulating modern society. He took as one of his examples the tattooing of the "Papuan" and the intense surface decorations of the objects about him—Loos says that, in the eyes of western culture, the Papuan has not evolved to the moral…
Dani people from the central highlands of Western New Guinea, Indonesia.
Children dressed up for sing‑sing in Papua New Guinea.
Yali in the Yahukimo Regency, Indonesia
Melanesian girls from Papua New Guinea