STUDIES IN ART, ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN: VOLUME ON

by Nikolaus Pevsner

A profusely illustrated collection of essays by Nikolaus Pevsner on art, architecture, and design. Pevsner (1902-1983) was a German-born, British scholar of history of art and, especially, of history of architecture. Volume 1, From Mannerism to Romanticism; 256 pages; 267 b&w illustrations. Topics in Vol. 1: The Counter-Reformation and Mannerism; Early and High Baroque; The Crisis of 1650 in Italian Painting; The Genesis of the Picturesque; A Note on Sharawaggi; Richard Payne Knight; Uvedale Price, Humphry Repton; Good King James Gothic; Goethe and Architecture; Karl Friedrich Schinkel; The Doric Revival; and The Egyptian Revival. Notes, list of illustrations, index. Volume 2, Victorian and After; 288 pages; 517 b&w illustrations. Topics in Vol. 2: Design and Industry Through the Ages; Early Working Class Housing; High Victorian Design; Matthew Digby Wyatt; William Morris and Architecture; Art Furniture of the 1870s; Arthur H. Mackmurdo; C.F.A. Voysey; Charles Rennie Mackintosh; George Walton; Patient Progress Frank Pick; Patient Progress Gordon Russell; Patient Progress The DIA; The Return of Historicism; and Address Given at the Opening of the Yale School of Art and Architecture 1963. Appendix, notes, list of illustrations, index. Both 9.25 x 11.5 inches.

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1981

About the author

Sir Nikolaus Pevsner was one of the twentieth century's most learned and stimulating writers on art and architecture. He established his reputation with Pioneers of Modern Design, though he is probably best known for his celebrated series of guides, The Buildings of England, acknowledged as one of the great achievements of twentieth-century scholarship. He was also founding editor of The Pelican History of Art, the most comprehensive and scholarly history of art ever published in English.