Pevsner on Art and Architecture The Radio Talks

Name: Pevsner on Art and Architecture The Radio Talks
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ISBN: 9780413772442

ISBN-10: 0413772446

ISBN-13: 9780413772442

Edition: 2003

Authors: Nikolaus Pevsner, Stephen Games, Stephen Games, Stephen Games

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Providing instruction, entertainment and illumination, this is a collection of the radio talks given by Niklaus Pevsner, one of the 20th century's most influential, learned and stimulating writers on art and architecture. He was also the author of the celebrated 'Buildings of England' series.

Book details

List price: $15.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Methuen Publishing Limited
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.100
Language: English

He is a former architecture historian.



Preface


Introduction


Chronology


The rise of academies


Richard Payne Knight


The architecture of Washington


The Adoration of the Kings


The Dukeries


Danish art


From William Morris to Walter Gropius


German painting of the Age of Reformation


Goethe and architecture


Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt


Villard de Honnecourt


Revivalisms in architecture


Baroque painting in Italy


Victorian Architecture


How to judge Victorian architecture


Pugin, Ruskin, Scott


Churches and public buildings and the neglect of the common man


The Late Victorians and William Morris


Splendeurs et miseres


Englishmen's Castles


Lumley Castle, County Durham


Bolsover Castle, Derbyshire


Strawberry Hill


Antoni Gaudi


Reflections on not teaching art history


Arts and commerce promoted


Bavarian Rococo - or the eloquent in art


The Englishness of English Art: The Reith Lectures


The geography of art


Hogarth and observed life


Reynolds and detachment


Perpendicular England


Blake and the flaming line


Constable and the pursuit of Nature


The genius of the place


A setting for St. Paul's


Some thoughts on German painting


King Ramiro's churches


The ingratiating chaos


Dark gold


The return of historicism


Mannerism and Elizabethan Architecture


Part 1


Part 2


Part 3


The Anti-Pioneers


Reynolds's Discourses


The golden days of the Vienna Secession


South Kensington - a memorial to Albert


Truly a municipal palace


Pevsner's BBC Radio Talks


Index