Pevsner: The BBC Years: Listening to the Visual Arts

ISBN-13: 9781138570146 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 412 str.

Stephen Games

Opis

This book looks at the rise in Pevsner’s standing at the BBC, at what he was admired for, and at the circumstances surrounding his being commissioned, in the mid-1950s, to give the first series of Reith Lectures on an arts subject. It also documents the unravelling of Pevsner's reputation, showing how he was caught between changing fashions in media culture and doubts about the safety of his ideas, both within the BBC and, externally, by British conservatives who found him too radical and American radicals who found him too conservative.

Recenzje

’Stephen Games is a leading authority on the life and work of Nikolaus Pevsner and this lucid and immensely readable history is as fascinating as it is informative. We learn much of Pevsner’s work as a broadcaster but at the same time the post-war BBC and British society is revealed in this very detailed account. The fascination of Stephen Games’ authoritative account of Pevsner’s BBC career is how much we learn about the BBC itself and post-war Britain. This is a thoughtful and perceptive contribution to the field which will be seized on by broadcasting historians.’ Hugh Chignell, Bournemouth University, UK

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O autorze

Stephen Games is a designer and writer specialising in architecture and cultural history. Formerly with the BBC, the Guardian and the Independent, he has written extensively about Nikolaus Pevsner and John Betjeman, runs the New Premises design studio in North London, and teaches around the world. He was educated at the Central School of Art and Magdalene College, Cambridge, has lectured on architectural history and theory at Kent University, and has taught at Boston University and Temple University, Philadelphia. He is the winner of a British Press Award and has twice been a guest scholar at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.