Pevsner : the complete broadcast talks : architecture and art on radio and television, 1945-1977 / [edited] 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 over a 37-year period between 1945-1977. It includes the seven texts of the 1955 Reith Lectures in their original broa...
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| Language: | English German |
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Burlington, VT :
Ashgate Publishing Company,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Cover; Contents; Notes on Contributors; Preface; 1 Propaganda; Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier; The Rise of Academies; The Function of Craft in an Industrial Age; Daily Herald Modern Homes Exhibition; 'Building Now' Exhibition; Reflections on Ruins; Art and the State; Britain Can Make It; Soft Furnishings-Carpets, Curtains and Upholstery; 2 The Influence of Basil Taylor; Richard Payne Knight; The Architecture of Washington; The Renaissance of the English Public House; The Adoration of the Kings; Le musée imaginaire; The Dukeries; Danish Art; Public Buildings.
- From William Morris to Walter Gropius3 The Influence of Anna Kallin; German Painting of the Age of Reformation; Sir Matthew Digby Wyatt; Goethe and Architecture; Villard de Honnecourt; The Golden Age of English Architecture (German-missing); Revivalisms in Architecture; Baroque Painting in Italy; 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 misères; Modern Architecture and the Church; Anglo-German Friendship (German-missing); Lumley Castle.
- Bolsover Castle, DerbyshireStrawberry Hill, Twickenham; Antonio Gaudí; Reflections on Not Teaching Art History; At Aspen in Colorado; Reconstruction in France; A Pilgrims' Church in France; County Guides (German-missing); The Picturesque and the Twentieth Century; Arts and Commerce Promoted; Bavarian Rococo-or the Eloquent in Art; Dam Building in the Dolomites; 4 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 Englishness of English Art.
- The Genius of the Place5 In Retreat; National Characteristics of Art (missing); A Setting for St. Paul's; Some Thoughts on German Painting; The English Eccentrics; The New St Paul's Plan (German-missing); New Trends in Architecture (German); The Berlin Interbau Exhibition (German); City of Tomorrow: The Interbau Exhibition; King Ramiro's Churches; Functional Architecture; The Ingratiating Chaos; Nikolaus Pevsner in New Zealand; Art and Architecture; Eindrücke von einer Neuseeland-Reise (German); The Penguin Story (German-Missing); Bauen und Planen (German); Sir Basil Spence (German-missing)
- Contemporary British Architecture (French-missing)Deutscher Geist in England (German-missing); Layer Marney; Eltham Hall and Eltham Lodge; Claydon House (missing); Ladbroke Estate (missing); The First Garden Suburb at Bedford Park (missing); Holkham Hall (missing and unbroadcast); The Library of St John's College, Cambridge (missing); Long Melford (missing); The Norfolkness of Norfolk Buildings (missing); Bloomsbury (missing); 6 The Influence of Leonie Cohn; The Sources of the Twentieth Century; Argentinian Edwardian: The Architecture of Cordoba; Dark Gold; Was geht in der Baukunst vor?