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  • Pioneers of Modern Design

    From William Morris to Walter Gropius

    by Nikolaus Pevsner ...
    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 ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • High Victorian Design

    A Study of the Exhibits of 1851

    by Nikolaus Pevsner ...
    'Thirst for information, faith in commerce and industry, inventiveness and technical daring, energy and tenacity, and a tendency to mix up religion with visible success - all these qualities have to be remembered as one embarks on a conducted tour of some of the exhibits of 1851.'The Great Exhibition of 1851 at the Crystal Palace was opened by Queen Victoria and would attract more than six million ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • A History of Building Types

    by Nikolaus Pevsner ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    An essential guide to vital and often overlooked features of the architectural and social inheritance of the WestThis book provides vital insights into the ways in which architecture reflects the character of society. Drawing on his immense erudition and keenly discerning eye, Nikolaus Pevsner describes twenty types of buildings ranging from the most monumental to the least, and from the ideal to ... Read more

    $53.29 USD

  • The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design (Second) (World of Art)

    by Nikolaus Pevsner ...
    Series Book 0 - World of Art
    An updated edition of this classic survey of the origins of twentieth-century ideas in architecture and the applied arts.The turn of the nineteenth century saw an extraordinary flowering of invention in architecture and design, leading to the emergence of two contrasting styles: art nouveau and the International Style. Professor Nikolaus Pevsner brings clarity to this period of dynamic change by ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

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    by James Stevens Curl, Susan Wilson ...
    Series series Oxford Quick Reference
    Containing over 6,000 entries from Aalto to Zwinger and written in a clear and concise style, this authoritative dictionary covers architectural history in detail, from ancient times to the present day. It also includes concise biographies of hundreds of architects from history (excluding living persons), from Sir Francis Bacon and Imhotep to Liang Ssu-ch'eng and Francis Inigo Thomas. The ... ... Read more

    $15.19 USD

  • Cafes and Bars

    The Architecture of Public Display

    Edited by Christoph Grafe, Franziska Bollerey ...
    Series series Interior Architecture
    The design of bars and cafes has played an important role in the development of architecture in the twentieth century. This influence has been felt particularly strongly over the past thirty years, in a time when these social spaces have contributed significantly to the rediscovery and reinvention of cities across Europe and North America.This volume presents and examines this significant urban ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Observations on Urban Aesthetics

    London, Paris and New York

    by Wim Denslagen ...
    London, Paris and New York were each designated as 'capital of the world' in the course of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Besides their cultural importance, they were also admired for their beauty. How travellers described these cityscapes is the theme of this book. Why is it interesting to look at these cities through the eyes of travellers from the past who visited places, which have ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Portraits and Recent Acquisitions

    by Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts ...
    Every year Lawrence Steigrad Fine Arts scours the world to find old master paintings to market. Discoveries are made in the most unlikely locations and can reveal startling stories. Past owners such as Adolf Hitler emerge. Twenty fully illustrated paintings constitute our latest adventures and a number of their tales will change the way you forever regard the history of art. ... Read more

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  • Art Nouveau Architecture

    by Anne Anderson ...
    Distinguished by their lavish sculpture, metalwork or tile facades, Art Nouveau buildings certainly stand out. Art Nouveau buildings are unique, audacious and inspirational. Rejecting historic styles, considered inappropriate for an era driven by progress, architects and designers sought a new vocabulary of architectural forms. Their vision was shaped by modern materials and innovative ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • Writers' Houses and the Making of Memory

    Edited by Harald Hendrix ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    This innovative new book examines the ways in which writers’ houses contribute to the making of memory. It shows that houses built or inhabited by poets and novelists both reflect and construct the author’s private and artistic persona; it also demonstrates how this materialized process of self-fashioning is subsequently appropriated within various strategies and policies of cultural memory. ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Pevsner: The Complete Broadcast Talks

    Architecture and Art on Radio and Television, 1945-1977

    by Stephen Games ...
    This book brings together the surviving texts of the 113 talks on art and architecture that we know of, given by the art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner on radio and television between 1945--1977. It includes the seven texts of the 1955 Reith Lectures in their original broadcast form, as well as lectures that Pevsner gave in German (for the BBC in London and RIAS in Berlin) and on the radio in New ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Cathedrals of Urban Modernity

    Creation of the First Museums of Contemporary Art

    by J. Pedro Lorente ...
    First published in 1998, this volume explores the expanding wave of a new kind of museums of contemporary art in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Lorente examines their ‘coming of age’ and the weight of their museological legacy, arguing that the establishment of great national museums of art at London and Paris radiated out, carrying their influence with it. This book emerged as part ... Read more

    $51.99 USD