Pioneers of Modern Design

Name: Pioneers of Modern Design
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ISBN: 9780956494269

ISBN-10: 0956494269

ISBN-13: 9780956494269

Edition: 2011

Authors: Nikolaus Pevsner, Richard Weston

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One of the most widely read books on modern design, Nikolaus Pevsner's landmark work remains as stimulating as it was when it was first published in 1936.

Book details

List price: $26.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Palazzo Editions, Limited
Publication date: 11/2/2011
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 7.50" wide x 10.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 2.090
Language: English

He is a former architecture historian.



Introduction



Forewords to the First, Second and Third Editions




Theories of Art from Morris to Gropius


The Arts and Crafts Movement


Deutscher Werkbund



From Eighteen-fifty-one to Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement


The Great Exhibition


Owen Jones and The Grammar of Ornament


The Domestic Revival


The Aesthetic Movement



Eighteen-ninety in Painting


Paul Cï¿½zanne and the Revolution in Painting


The Symbolist Movement


The Pont-Aven School


Poster Art



Art Nouveau


Henri Van de Velde


Louis Comfort Tiffany and Emile Gallï¿½


Influential Magazines



Engineering and Architecture in the Nineteenth Century


Railway Stations


The Chicago School


Eugï¿½ne-Emmanuel Viollet-Ie-Duc



England, Eighteen-ninety to Nineteen-fourteen


Japonisme


The Garden City Movement


Mackintosh and the Glasgow School


Charles Francis Annesley Voysey



The Modern Movement Before Nineteen-fourteen


The Vienna Sezession and Wiener Werkstatte


Expressionism


Frank Lloyd Wright


Walter Gropius and the Modern Movement


Notes


Bibliography


Table of Names and Dates


Index