PIONEERS OF MODERN DESIGN From William Morris to Walter Gropius
by PEVSNER, Nikolaus
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About This Item
New York: Museum of Modern Art, ( 1949 ). Revised & Enlarged edition. Hardcover. Good. photos, plates. 4to, 151 pages, purplish cloth, name on endpaper, touch of damp on top margin.
The illustrations have been extended from 84 to 137, with corrections in the text including to a virtual re-wriring of a whole chapter. Photos, plates.
The illustrations have been extended from 84 to 137, with corrections in the text including to a virtual re-wriring of a whole chapter. Photos, plates.
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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- Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- DEMO011252I
- Title
- PIONEERS OF MODERN DESIGN From William Morris to Walter Gropius
- Author
- PEVSNER, Nikolaus
- Illustrator
- photos, plates
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Revised & Enlarged edition
- Publisher
- Museum of Modern Art
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- ( 1949 )
- Keywords
- design, modern design, decorative arts, william morris, walter gropius, Karl Schmidt, deutsches werkbund, voysey, mackintosh, frank lloyd wright,
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About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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