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Studies in Art, Architecture and Design
Publication Data:
Author(s): Nikolaus Pevsner
Publisher: Art, Study & Teaching
Pages: Walker
Language: 59.5
Category: Art and Photography
Genre: 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 One: Frank Pick; Patient Progress Two: Gordon Russell; Patient Progress Three: 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 volumes: 9.25 x 11.5 inches.
ISBN: 0802702767
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