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 visitors. Writing one hundred years later, Nikolaus Pevsner makes a brilliant survey of what the Exhibition - the final flourish of a century of great commercial expansion - offered to posterity as the hallmarks of High Victorian Design; also as windows into the mentality of mid-nineteenth-century England.

Los estilos artísticos que se han sucedido a lo largo de la historia de la arquitectura pertenecen al mundo intelectual y material. Nuevos objetivos o nuevos materiales pueden dar lugar, e incluso exigir, nuevos modelos de construccion y el desarrollo de nuevas formas, pero tanto unos como otras solo cobraran verdadera efctividad cuando el arquitecto los dota de un significado estetico. La arquitectura, asi considerada, no es el producto de los materiales ni de los objetivos, sino del espiritu cambiante de la evolucion historica. De este principio parte el prestigioso historiador del arte Sir Nikoluas Pevsner (1902-1983) -profesor de la Universidad de Cambridge y mas tarde profesor de Historia del Arte de la Universidad de Londres- en su Breve historia de la arquitectura europea. En ella traza la evolucion de los distintos estilos arquitectonicos a traves de los siglos, desde las basilicas romanas hasta los grandes rascacielos contemporaneos. Esta obra ya clasica, que ha visto en su edicion original constantes reimpresiones, constituye una excelente introduccion al estudio de la historia de la arquitectura.

Sir Nikolaus Pevsner's history of European architecture, with its readable brevity and its combination of warmth and scholarship, provides the ideal introduction to the subject. Concentrating on outstanding and typical buildings, this classic study traces the story of western architecture from the basilicas of Rome to the skyscrapers of the twentieth century. Fully illustrated, with nearly 300 photographs, drawings and plans integrated into the text, An Outline of European Architecture has been expanded in edition after edition, and has sold over half a million copies since it was first published.

Publié pour la première fois en 1940, cet ouvrage retrace les origines et l’évolution des académies d’art du XVIe à la première moitié du XXe siècle. Avec simplicité, sans que pèse jamais son éruditi

L’art anglais est-il spécifique ? Et s’il l’est, comment définir ses particularités ? C’est à ces questions que Nikolaus Pevsner s’est proposé de répondre dans un célèbre essai paru en 1956, The Engl

Pieza clave y documento indispensable para comprender e interpretar el nacimiento y la trayectoria fundacional del Movimiento Moderno. Su contenido, que se inicia con las doctrinas de William Morris y sus seguidores es un apasionante analisis, pleno de anecdotas y referencias personales, que abarcan todas las etapas de la genesis del diseño del siglo XX y culminan con la obra del famoso arquitecto aleman Walter Gropius y el tambien famoso y polemico Bauhaus. El profesor Pevsner nos propone una reflexion y al mismo tiempo una evaluacion del origen y generacion del diseño, liberandolo de las contradicciones generadas por las artes aplicadas y la artesania.

One of the most widely read books on modern design, Nikolaus Pevsners landmark work today remains as stimulating as it was when first published in 1936. This expanded edition of Pioneers of Modern Design provides Pevsners original text along with significant new and updated information, enhancing Pevsners illuminating account of the roots of Modernism. The book now offers many beautiful colour illustrations; updated biographies and bibliographies of all major figures; illustrated short essays on key themes, movements, and individuals; a critique of Pevsners analysis from todays perspective; examples of works after 1914 (where the original study ended); a biography detailing Pevsners life and achievements; and much more. Pevsner saw Modernism as a synthesis of three main sources: William Morris and his followers, the work of nineteenth-century engineers, and Art Nouveau. The author considers the role of these sources in the work of early Modernists and looks at such masters of the movement as C.F.A. Voysey and Charles Rennie Mackintosh in Britain, Sullivan and Frank Lloyd Wright in America, and Adolf Loos and Otto Wagner in Vienna. The account concludes with a discussion of the radical break with the past represented by the design work of Walter Gropius and his future Bauhaus colleagues. Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983), a distinguished scholar of art and architecture, was best known as editor of the 46-volume series The Buildings of England and as founding editor of The Pelican History of Art.

Cumplidos ciento veinte años del nacimiento de Nikolaus Pevsner (enero de 1902) y cuarenta de su desaparición (agosto de 1983), la editorial Abada publica bajo eltítulo Sobre lo pintoresco