Pioneers of modern design : from William Morris to Walter Gropius / Nikolaus Pevsner ; [introduction by Richard Weston.].
Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1902-1983.
2005
N 6450 .P4 2005 (Mapit)
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Title
Pioneers of modern design : from William Morris to Walter Gropius / Nikolaus Pevsner ; [introduction by Richard Weston.].
Author
Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1902-1983.
Edition
4th ed., rev. and expanded.
ISBN
0300105711
9780300105711
Publication Details
New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press, 2005.
Language
English
Description
192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm
Call Number
N 6450 .P4 2005
Summary
"This expanded edition of Pioneers of Modern Design provides Pevsner's original text along with significant new and revised information, enhancing the author's illuminating account of the roots of Modernism. The book now offers many beautiful color 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."--Jacket.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-185) and index.
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Introduction / Richard Weston
Forewords to the first, second and third editions / Nikolaus Pevsner
1. Theories of art from Morris to Gropius
John Ruskin
William Morris
The arts and crafts movement
Deutscher Werkbund
2. From eighteen-fifty-one to Morris and the arts and crafts movement
The great exhibition
Owen Jones and The grammar of ornament
The domestic revival
The aesthetic movement
3. Eighteen-ninety in painting
Paul Cézanne and the revolution in painting
The symbolist movement
The Pont-Aven School
Poster art
4. Art nouveau
Victor Horta
Henri Van de Velde
Louis Comfort Tiffany and Emile Gallé
Influential magazines
5. Engineering and architecture in the nineteenth century
Railway stations
The Chicago School
Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc
Gustave Eiffel
6. England, eighteen-ninety to nineteen-fourteen
Japonisme
The garden city movement
Mackintosh and the Glasgow School
Charles Francis Annesley Voysey
7. The modern movement before nineteen-fourteen
The Vienna Sezession and Wiener Werkstatte
Expressionism
Frank Lloyd Wright
Walter Gropius and the modern movement.

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