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Studies in art, architecture and design : Victorian and after / Nikolaus Pevsner.

By: Pevsner, Nikolaus, 1902-1983.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookPublisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [1982?]Description: 288 p. : ill., facsims., plans, ports. ; 29 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0691039984.Subject(s): Art, Modern -- 19th century -- Great Britain | Architecture -- Great Britain -- 19th century | Architecture, Modern -- 20th century -- Great Britain | Art, Modern -- 20th century -- Great BritainDDC classification: 745.409
Contents:
Part One: Victorian themes -- Design and industry through the ages -- Early working class housing -- High Victorian design -- Matthew Digby Wyatt -- William Morris and architecture -- Art furniture of the 1870s -- Arthur H. Mackmurdo -- C.F.A. Voysey -- Charles Rennie Mackintosh -- George Walton -- Part Two: Twentieth-century themes -- Patient progress one: Frank Pick -- Patient progress two: Gordon Russell -- Patient progress three: the DIA -- The return of historicism -- Address given at the opening of the Yale School of Art and Architecture 1963.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

The description for this book, Studies in Art, Architecture, and Design: Victorian and After, will be forthcoming.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-276) and index.

Part One: Victorian themes -- Design and industry through the ages -- Early working class housing -- High Victorian design -- Matthew Digby Wyatt -- William Morris and architecture -- Art furniture of the 1870s -- Arthur H. Mackmurdo -- C.F.A. Voysey -- Charles Rennie Mackintosh -- George Walton -- Part Two: Twentieth-century themes -- Patient progress one: Frank Pick -- Patient progress two: Gordon Russell -- Patient progress three: the DIA -- The return of historicism -- Address given at the opening of the Yale School of Art and Architecture 1963.

Author notes provided by Syndetics

He is a former architecture historian.

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