Pioneers of Modern Design. From William Morris to Walter Gropius
by Nikolaus Pevsner
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Harmondsworth, England: Pelican/Penguin, 1966. Paperback. wear to spine. Slight creases to corner front and back cover good content. The history of the Modern Movement in architecture and design was an almost unknown field until the author first published this book in 1936. this soon came to be recognized as the standard work on the subject and was revised and enlarged in 1949 and has been again revised and partly rewritten for this pelican edition. Professor Pevsner tells the exciting story of how the efforts of a relatively small group of men lifted our visual concepts away from state Victorian Historicism and infused them once more with honesty, fitness of purpose, and contemporary expression. He shows how the foundation of the best that surrounds us today was laid then by men who thought and taught as well as designed. Illustrated. 256 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Reprint. Soft Cover. Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Paperback.
Synopsis
One of the most widely read books on modern design, Nikolaus Pevsner's landmark work today remains as stimulating as it was when first published in 1936. This expanded edition of Pioneers of Modern Design provides Pevsner's original text along with significant new and updated information, enhancing Pevsner's illuminating account of the roots of Modernism. The book now offers many beautiful colour illustrations; updated biographies and bibliographies of all major figures; illustrated short essays on key themes, movements, and individuals; a critique of Pevsner's analysis from today's perspective; examples of works after 1914 (where the original study ended); a biography detailing Pevsner's life and achievements; and much more. Pevsner saw Modernism as a synthesis of three main sources: William Morris and his followers, the work of nineteenth-century engineers, and Art Nouveau. The author considers the role of these sources in the work of early Modernists and looks at such masters of the movement as C.F.A. Voysey and Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Britain, Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright in America, and Adolf Loos and Otto Wagner in Vienna. The account concludes with a discussion of the radical break with the past represented by the design work of Walter Gropius and his future Bauhaus colleagues. Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983), a distinguished scholar of art and architecture, was best known as editor of the 46-volume series The Buildings of England and as founding editor of The Pelican History of Art.
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- Title
- Pioneers of Modern Design. From William Morris to Walter Gropius
- Author
- Nikolaus Pevsner
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- Publisher
- Pelican/Penguin
- Place of Publication
- Harmondsworth, England
- Date Published
- 1966
- Keywords
- Non Fiction Pioneers Modern Design Architecture
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall
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