Pioneers of modern design : from William Morris to Walter Gropius / Nikolaus Pevsner ; [introduction by Richard Weston.]

Pevsner, Nikolaus (1902-1983)

2005, 4th ed., rev. and expanded. New Haven, Conn. ; London : Yale University Press. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #445225
ISBN: 0300105711

Physical description: 192 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm. Contents: Introduction / Richard Weston -- Forewords to the first, second and third editions / Nikolaus Pevsner -- 1. Theories of art from Morris to Gropius -- John Ruskin -- William Morris -- The arts and crafts movement -- Deutscher Werkbund -- 2. 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 -- 3. Eighteen-ninety in painting -- Paul Cézanne and the revolution in painting -- The symbolist movement -- The Pont-Aven School -- Poster art -- 4. Art nouveau -- Victor Horta -- Henri Van de Velde -- Louis Comfort Tiffany and Emile Gallé -- Influential magazines -- 5. Engineering and architecture in the nineteenth century -- Railway stations -- The Chicago School -- Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc -- Gustave Eiffel -- 6. England, eighteen-ninety to nineteen-fourteen -- Japonisme -- The garden city movement -- Mackintosh and the Glasgow School -- Charles Francis Annesley Voysey -- 7. The modern movement before nineteen-fourteen -- The Vienna Sezession and Wiener Werkstatte -- Expressionism -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- Walter Gropius and the modern movement. Subjects: Morris, William 1834-1896. Gropius, Walter 1883-1969. Modern movement (Architecture). Modernism (Art). Design History 19th century. Art, Modern 19th century History. Art, Modern 20th century History.

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