Pioneers of Modern Design

by Pevsner, Nikolaus; Weston, Richard

• ISBN13: 9780956494269
• ISBN10: 0956494269
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-11-02
• Publisher: Palazzo Editions

Summary

A new edition, fully illustrated in color, of one of the most widely read books on modern design Nikolaus Pevsner's landmark work was first published in 1936. It remains as stimulating and challenging today as it was then. Pevsner saw Modernism as a synthesis of three main sources: William Morris and his followers; the work of the 19th-century engineers; and Art Nouveau. All these form the essential background to the work of the early Modernists, with their rejection of ornament, their use of new materials and their commitment to "utility" and the machine age. Pevsner looks at the early masters of the movement, such as Voysey and Rennie Mackintosh in Britain; Sullivan and Lloyd Wright in America; and Loos and Wagner in Vienna, ending in 1914, with Walter Gropius and the Bauhaus movement representing design's most radical break with the past. This new edition of this classic work is fully illustrated in color, with new feature spreads on the key protagonists and movements and a new introduction by Professor Richard Weston.

Author Biography

Nikolaus Pevsner (1902–1983) was one of the 20th century's most learned and stimulating writers on art and architecture. He is best known for his celebrated series of guides, The Buildings of England (46 volumes, published 1951–74) acknowledged as one of the great achievements of 20th-century scholarship. He was also founding editor, in 1953, of The Pelican History of Art. Richard Weston is a professor of architecture and coeditor of the journal Architectural Research Quarterly.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 6
Forewords to the First, Second and Third Editions	p. 10
Theories of Art from Morris to Gropius	p. 12
The Arts and Crafts Movement	p. 32
Deutscher Werkbund	p. 34
From Eighteen-fifty-one to Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement	p. 36
The Great Exhibition	p. 52
Owen Jones and The Grammar of Ornament	p. 53
The Domestic Revival	p. 54
The Aesthetic Movement	p. 56
Eighteen-ninety in Painting	p. 58
Paul Cézanne and the Revolution in Painting	p. 72
The Symbolist Movement	p. 74
The Pont-Aven School	p. 76
Poster Art	p. 78
Art Nouveau	p. 80
Henri Van de Velde	p. 97
Louis Comfort Tiffany and Emile Gallé	p. 98
Influential Magazines	p. 100
Engineering and Architecture in the Nineteenth Century	p. 102
Railway Stations	p. 120
The Chicago School	p. 121
Eugéne-Emmanuel Viollet-Ie-Duc	p. 122
England, Eighteen-ninety to Nineteen-fourteen	p. 124
Japonisme	p. 140
The Garden City Movement	p. 141
Mackintosh and the Glasgow School	p. 142
Charles Francis Annesley Voysey	p. 144
The Modern Movement Before Nineteen-fourteen	p. 146
The Vienna Sezession and Wiener Werkstatte	p. 164
Expressionism	p. 165
Frank Lloyd Wright	p. 166
Walter Gropius and the Modern Movement	p. 168
Notes	p. 170
Bibliography	p. 180
Table of Names and Dates	p. 186
Index	p. 187
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