Pevsner on Art and Architecture: The Radio Talks

London: Methuen & Co. Ltd., 2003. Cloth, xlii, 357 pages; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. A fine copy of the first printing. "This title presents the collected radio talks of one of the 20th century's most influential, learned and stimulating writers on art and architecture, Nikolaus Pevsner." - Publisher. CONTENTS: The rise of academies; Richard Payne Knight; The architecture of Washington; The Adoration of the Kings; The Dukeries; Danish art; From William Morris to Walter Gropius; German painting of the Age of Reformation; Goethe and architecture; Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt; Villard de Honnecourt; Revivalisms in architecture; Baroque painting in Italy; Victorian Architecture. 1. How to judge Victorian architecture. 2. Pugin, Ruskin, Scott. 3. Churches and public buildings and the neglect of the common man. 4. The Late Victorians and William Morris; Splendeurs et miseres; Englishmen's Castles. 1. Lumley Castle, County Durham. 2. Bolsover Castle, Derbyshire. 3. Strawberry Hill; Antoni Gaudi; Reflections on not teaching art history; Arts and commerce promoted; Bavarian Rococo; or the eloquent in art; The Englishness of English Art: The Reith Lectures. 1. The geography of art. 2. Hogarth and observed life. 3. Reynolds and detachment. 4. Perpendicular England. 5. Blake and the flaming line. 6. Constable and the pursuit of Nature. 7. The genius of the place; A setting for St. Paul's; Some thoughts on German painting; King Ramiro's churches; The ingratiating chaos; Dark gold; The return of historicism; Mannerism and Elizabethan Architecture. Part 1. Part 2. Part 3; The Anti-Pioneers; Reynolds's Discourses; The golden days of the Vienna Secession; South Kensington; a memorial to Albert; Truly a municipal palace; App. Pevsner's BBC Radio Talks.. 1st. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo. Collectible.