Pioneers Of Modern Design

Author : Nikolaus Pevsner
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141932325
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pioneers of Modern Design written by Nikolaus Pevsner and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 1991-03-28 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 illustrations; updated biographies and bibliographies of all major figures; illustrated short essays on key themes, movements, and individuals; a critique of Pevsner's analysis from today's perspective; examples of works after 1914 (where the original study ended); a biography detailing Pevsner's 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.

Author : Sir Nikolaus Pevsner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pioneers of Modern Design, from William Morris to Walter Gropius written by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Herbert Spencer
Publisher : MIT Press (MA)
ISBN 13 : 9780262690812
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pioneers of Modern Typography written by Herbert Spencer and published by MIT Press (MA). This book was released on 1983-01 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since it was first published in 1969, it has served as the standard guide to the impact of twentieth century avant-garde movements on graphic design and typography.

Author : Jeremy Aynsley
Publisher : Miller/Mitchell Beazley
ISBN 13 : 9781840009392
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pioneers of Modern Graphic Design written by Jeremy Aynsley and published by Miller/Mitchell Beazley. This book was released on 2004 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New design experiment - Bauhaus - Art Deco - Studio Boggeri - Hendrik Werkman - Pop subversion and alternatives - Late modern and postmodernism - Design in the digital era.

Author : Nikolaus Pevsner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Nikolaus Pevsner. Pioneers of Modern Design, from William Morris to Walter Gropius written by Nikolaus Pevsner and published by . This book was released on 1949 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Nikolaus Pevsner
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780300105711
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pioneers of Modern Design written by Nikolaus Pevsner and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Weston is professor at the Welsh School of Architecture, Cardiff University. He has published extensively on twentieth-century architecture, including his book Materials, Form, and Architecture, published by Yale University Press.

Author : Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351333232
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond the Victorian/ Modernist Divide written by Anne-Florence Gillard-Estrada and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beyond the Victorian/ Modernist Divide contributes to a new phase in the Victorian-modern debate of traditional periodization through the perspective lens of literature and the visual arts. Breaking away from conventionally fixed discourses and dichotomies, this book utilizes an interdisciplinary approach to examine the existence of overlaps and unexplored continuities between the Victorians, the post-Victorians and the modernists, including the fields of music, architecture, design, science, and social life. Furthermore, the book remaps the cultural history of two critical meta-narratives and their interdependence – the myth of "high modernism" and the myth of "Victorianism" – by building on recent scholarly work and addressing the question of the "turn of the century break theory" with a new set of arguments and contributions. The essays presented within acknowledge the existence of a break-theory in modernism, but question this theory by re-contextualising it while uncovering long-masked continuities between artists, genres and forms across the divide. The collection offers a new approach to modernism, Edwardianism, and Victorianism; utilizing the cross-fertilisation of interdisciplinary approaches, and by combining contributions that look forward from the Victorians with other contributions that look backward from the modernists. While literary modernism and its vexed relationships with the nineteenth century is a central subject of the book, further analysis includes artistic discourses and theories stemming from history, the visual arts, science, music and design. Each chapter offers a fresh interpretation of individual artists, navigating away from characteristic classifications of works, authors and cultural phenomena. Ultimately, the volume argues that though periodization and genre categories play substantial roles in this divide, it is also essential to be critically aware of the way cultural history has been, and continues to be, constructed.

Author : Lesley Jackson
Publisher : Princeton Architectural Press
ISBN 13 : 9781568982717
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robin and Lucienne Day written by Lesley Jackson and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2001-03 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed as the British counterparts to Charles and Ray Eames, Robin and Lucienne Day electrified the British design scene in the 1950s with their startling furniture and textile designs. Indeed, their influence over the next five decades has been so profound that their early products were recently reintroduced by Conran's Habitat. Lucienne Day pioneered the introduction of modern abstract pattern design in the textile industry. Her fabrics, which oscillate between bold geometric figures and more subtle abstract patterns, were produced by companies as diverse as Heal's and Liberty of London. Robin Day's influential furniture designs pioneered the use of materials such as plywood, steel, and plastic. His stacking polypropylene chair (right) is one of the best-selling chairs in the world. Robin and Lucienne Day, the first-ever full-length monograph on their designs, features never-before-seen archival material along with over 250 color images of the full range of their work, including furniture, ceramics, textiles, wallpaper, interiors, appliances, exhibit designs, and graphics. Spanning a half-century's creative output, no designer will fail to be awed by the genius seen in this book.

Author : Nikolaus Pevsner
Publisher : Thames & Hudson
ISBN 13 : 0500779376
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design written by Nikolaus Pevsner and published by Thames & Hudson. This book was released on 2024-04-25 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 tracing the origins of twentieth-century ideas in architecture and the applied arts. Featuring a new foreword by the distinguished architectural historian Kenneth Frampton, this classic title has now been updated with colour illustrations throughout.

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Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pioneers of Modern Design written by and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: