216 pages, illustrations (some colour); 20 cm. Good+. Firm binding, clean text. Browning. Classic text. *** CONTENTS: 1. A style for the age; 2. Art Nouveau; 3. New Impetus from England; 4. Art and Industry; 5. Towards the International style. Size: 8vo.

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Title

The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design

Publisher

Oxford University Press; World of Art Ser., New York and Toronto

Publication Date

1968

Language

English

ISBN 10

0195199391

ISBN 13

9780195199390

Binding

Paperback

Condition

Good

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"No one but Dr Pevsner could have packed so much information into so compact a work or illustrated it more effectively."� The Times Literary Supplement

The turn of the nineteenth century saw an extraordinary flowering of invention in architecture and design, with two contrasting styles emerging� Art Nouveau and the International Style. Professor Pevsner brings a new clarity to an often confusing period, tracing� with the aid of nearly two hundred carefully chosen illustrations� the origins of twentieth-century ideas in architecture and the applied arts. Black-and-white illustrations throughout

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Sir Nikolaus Pevsner was a German and British scholar of the history of architecture. A dedicated cataloger of the architecture of Britain, he was a founding member of the Victorian Society and a fellow of the British Academy, as well as the recipient of a CBE and a knighthood. He died in 1983.

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