Pioneers Of Modern Design: From William Morris To Walter Gropius
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Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
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One of the most influential texts in the history of design criticism, Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius charts the intellectual and aesthetic revolution that gave birth to modern architecture and the applied arts. Nikolaus Pevsner, one of the twentieth century's foremost architectural historians, argues with compelling authority that the roots of the modernist movement lie not in the cold geometries of the Bauhaus alone, but in the passionate craftsmanship of William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement of Victorian England — tracing a bold, unbroken line of creative thought from the 1850s through to the founding of the Bauhaus in 1919. Pevsner's prose is precise yet richly evocative, weaving together biography, social history, and formal analysis to illuminate how architects, designers, and thinkers across Europe dismantled the ornamental excesses of the nineteenth century and constructed a new visual language for the modern age. First published in 1936 and revised in subsequent decades, this landmark work remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how the designed world came to look the way it does — and why the names Morris, Sullivan, van de Velde, and Gropius still resonate with such creative force today.
Author: Nikolaus Pevsner
Format: Paperback
Genre: Architecture
Condition remarks:
Book: Fair
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Markings: Previous owner
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
One of the most influential texts in the history of design criticism, Pioneers of Modern Design: From William Morris to Walter Gropius charts the intellectual and aesthetic revolution that gave birth to modern architecture and the applied arts. Nikolaus Pevsner, one of the twentieth century's foremost architectural historians, argues with compelling authority that the roots of the modernist movement lie not in the cold geometries of the Bauhaus alone, but in the passionate craftsmanship of William Morris and the Arts and Crafts movement of Victorian England — tracing a bold, unbroken line of creative thought from the 1850s through to the founding of the Bauhaus in 1919. Pevsner's prose is precise yet richly evocative, weaving together biography, social history, and formal analysis to illuminate how architects, designers, and thinkers across Europe dismantled the ornamental excesses of the nineteenth century and constructed a new visual language for the modern age. First published in 1936 and revised in subsequent decades, this landmark work remains essential reading for anyone seeking to understand how the designed world came to look the way it does — and why the names Morris, Sullivan, van de Velde, and Gropius still resonate with such creative force today.