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Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius; Revised and Expanded Edition
[Buy it!] | Pevsner Nikolaus; Weston Richard Introduction. | USD 35.85
(Fri May 24 04:09:58 2024) | Biblio | Trinder's Fine Tools | New Haven and London: Yale University Press, Date: 2005. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. 4th Edition. 4to - over 9¾ - 12" tall. 10 1/4" x 7 1/2", 192 pages, 131 colour and 66 black and white illustrations, bibliography, table of names and dates. 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; 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, Louis 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. Hb in dw, a near fine copy. . 2005. Yale University Press ISBN 0300105711 9780300105711 [GB] |
