wyszukanych pozycji: 26
Academies of Art: Past and Present
ISBN: 9781107421448 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 372 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1940, this book charts the origins and evolution of academies of art from the sixteenth century to the first half of the twentieth century. Pevsner expertly explains the political, religious and mercantile forces affecting the education of artists in various countries in Western Europe, and the growing 'academisation' of artistic training that he saw is his own day. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the various historical schools of art instruction and the history of art more generally.
Originally published in 1940, this book charts the origins and evolution of academies of art from the sixteenth century to the first half of the twent...
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341,87 zł |
Matthew Digby Wyatt: The First Cambridge Slade Professor of Fine Art: An Inaugural Lecture
ISBN: 9780521170765 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. For more than one reason Professor Pevsner, eleventh Slade Professor of Fine Art in the University of Cambridge, takes as the topic of his Inaugural Lecture Matthew Digby Wyatt, the Victorian architect and the first Slade Professor. He begins by inspecting some of Wyatt's major works - Addenbrooke's Hospital at Cambridge and the Paddington Station among them. Presently he allows himself to be diverted from his light architectural candour about Wyatt's buildings to an account of Wyatt's more general interests in design, and so to investigate the Victorian arena, with Pugin, Ruskin, and Morris,...
For more than one reason Professor Pevsner, eleventh Slade Professor of Fine Art in the University of Cambridge, takes as the topic of his Inaugural L...
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136,72 zł |
An Enquiry Into Industrial Art in England
ISBN: 9780521170659 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 250 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Originally published in 1937, this book was created to provide a survey of the conditions and artistic value of design in British industries. Through interviews with manufacturers, managers of department stores and shops, principals and teachers of art schools, commercial designers, artists, and architects, principally in the Midlands area, a composite portrait is developed. This portrait emphasises the interaction of seemingly disparate elements in the production of quality design, and shows the complexity of the process whilst remaining concise and accessible. The text is also well...
Originally published in 1937, this book was created to provide a survey of the conditions and artistic value of design in British industries. Through ...
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241,93 zł |
The Leaves of Southwell
ISBN: 9781910170977 / Twarda / 2023 / 112 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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51,74 zł |
The Buildings of Northumberland
ISBN: 9780300096385 / Angielski / Twarda / 1992 / 704 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. The county's remarkable and richly varied military architecutre, from Hadrian's Wall to Warkworth, contrasts with monastic ruins buried deep in the valleys of the Coquet and the Aln or standing proudly by the sea at Holy Island and Tynemouth. Newcastle upon Tyne has the most elegant nineteenth-century city centre in England. Elsewhere the distinctive smaller towns include Alnwick, dominated by its castle, Hexham with its priory, brick-built Morpeth, and Berwick-upon-Tweed, ringed with exceptional sixteenth-century fortifications. Great country houses range from Vanbrugh's theatrical Seaton...
The county's remarkable and richly varied military architecutre, from Hadrian's Wall to Warkworth, contrasts with monastic ruins buried deep in the va...
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332,01 zł |
A History of Building Types
ISBN: 9780691018294 / Angielski / Miękka / 1979 / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. Available again in paperback, this first survey of building types ever written remains an essential guide to vital and often overlooked features of the architectural and social inheritance of the West. Here Nikolaus Pevsner shares his immense erudition and keenly discerning eye with readers curious about the ways in which architecture reflects the character of society. He describes twenty types of buildings ranging from the most monumental to the least, from the most ideal to the most utilitarian. More than seven hundred illustrations illuminate the text. Both Europe and America... Available again in paperback, this first survey of building types ever written remains an essential guide to vital and often overlooked features of... |
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304,34 zł |
Staffordshire
ISBN: 9780300218350 / Twarda / 2024 / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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232,83 zł |
The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design
ISBN: 9780500200728 / Angielski / Miękka / 1985 / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. 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.
The turn of the nineteenth century saw an extraordinary flowering of invention in architecture and design, with two contrasting styles emerging--Art N...
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123,55 zł |
Yorkshire West Riding: Sheffield and the South
ISBN: 9780300224689 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 924 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This authoritative guide, the companion to Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North, covers a vast area marked by tremendous diversity of both landscape and buildings. The territory is rich in medieval churches and castles, 17th-century houses and 18th-century mansions, yet it is also deservedly famous for its outstanding 19th- and 20th-century ecclesiastical, civic, commercial and industrial buildings. Major examples of every period of English architecture are represented, from Selby Abbey to the palatial country house of the Earls Fitzwilliam at Wentworth Woodhouse, and...
This authoritative guide, the companion to Yorkshire West Riding: Leeds, Bradford and the North, covers a vast area marked by tremendous divers...
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310,43 zł |
Warwickshire
ISBN: 9780300215601 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Highlights of this fully revised and updated guide are the magnificent medieval fortresses of Warwick and Kenilworth Castles, but this county is also home to some of the most significant developments of England's postwar modern architecture, notably the rebuilt city center of Coventry destroyed in the Blitz. Leamington Spa has fine terraces of the Regency period but most famous of all is the market town of Stratford-upon-Avon where William Shakespeare was born and educated and the houses associated with his family are preserved. Also featured are the area's greatest country houses, from Tudor...
Highlights of this fully revised and updated guide are the magnificent medieval fortresses of Warwick and Kenilworth Castles, but this county is also ...
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310,43 zł |
Derbyshire
ISBN: 9780300215595 / Angielski / Twarda / 2016 / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This is the essential guide to the architecture of Pevsner's "county of contrasts," home to an amazingly diverse assortment of landmarks. Among Derbyshire's many distinguished country houses are Haddon Hall and Hardwick Hall. 17th-century highlights include the adventurous architecture of Bolsover Castle and the Baroque splendors of Chatsworth, while the dazzling Neoclassical interiors of Kedleston Hall are the summit of the county's many Georgian achievements. Numerous spa towns, pioneering industrial settlements, and parish churches from Anglo-Saxon to modern are also included. The settings...
This is the essential guide to the architecture of Pevsner's "county of contrasts," home to an amazingly diverse assortment of landmarks. Among Derbys...
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310,43 zł |
Cambridgeshire
ISBN: 9780300205961 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) This is the essential companion to the architecture of Cambridgeshire, fully revised for the first time in sixty years and featuring superb new photography. Half of the book is devoted to the famous university city, with its astonishingly rich and varied inheritance of college buildings including striking post-war additions. A combination of boldness and innovation may be found at Ely Cathedral, one of the greatest achievements of English medieval design. By comparison, the rest of the county remains surprisingly little known. Its largely unspoiled landscapes vary from the northern flat fen...
This is the essential companion to the architecture of Cambridgeshire, fully revised for the first time in sixty years and featuring superb new photog...
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310,43 zł |
Buckinghamshire
ISBN: 9780300095845 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 832 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This completely new edition reveals a county of contrasts. The semi-rural suburbia of outer-Outer London, with its important early Modern Movement houses, is counterbalanced by magnificent mansions and parks, like idyllic Stowe and the Rothschilds' extravaganza at Waddesdon. The Saxon Church at Wing, the exquisite seventeenth-century Winslow Hall, and Slough's twentieth-century factories all contribute to Buckinghamshire's rich inheritance. In this new edition, the unspoilt centres of small towns, like Amersham and Buckingham, are revisited and Milton Keynes, Britain's last and most ambitious...
This completely new edition reveals a county of contrasts. The semi-rural suburbia of outer-Outer London, with its important early Modern Movement hou...
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332,01 zł |
The Sources of Modern Architecture and Design
ISBN: 9780500297698 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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98,26 zł |
Cornwall
ISBN: 9780300126686 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 771 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Cornwall was the first volume in the Buildings of England series, published in 1951. This extensively revised edition brings much new research to bear on the history of the county's buildings, beginning with its rich prehistoric remains and early Christian structures and monuments including numerous Celtic crosses and holy wells. The high towers of the village churches, manor houses such as Cotehele, and the distinctive white-walled cottages in the villages and fishing towns contribute to Cornwall's unique, picturesque landscape. Cornwall is home to major country houses,...
Cornwall was the first volume in the Buildings of England series, published in 1951. This extensively revised edition brings much new re...
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310,43 zł |
London 3: North West
ISBN: 9780300096521 / Angielski / Twarda / 1991 / 804 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A comprehensive architectural guide encompassing three centuries of metropolitan growth spanning an area from Georgian St Marylebone and the riverside terraces of Chelsea and Chiswick to Heathrow Airport and the outer fringes of Middlesex.
A comprehensive architectural guide encompassing three centuries of metropolitan growth spanning an area from Georgian St Marylebone and the riverside...
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332,01 zł |
Visual Planning and the Picturesque
ISBN: 9781606060018 / Angielski / Twarda / 2010 / 221 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A plea for a visual approach to urban design & common sense in architecture, that seeks to incorporate & mediate rather than idealize & exclude, this manuscript was begun during the 1940s, but never completed by the author.
A plea for a visual approach to urban design & common sense in architecture, that seeks to incorporate & mediate rather than idealize & exclude, this ...
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166,01 zł |
Northamptonshire
ISBN: 9780300185072 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 800 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) Some of England's grandest country houses are to be found in this prosperous rural county. The Elizabethan Renaissance Kirby Hall, the Jacobean mansion at Apethorpe, the late 17th-century French-inspired Boughton, Hawksmoor's stately Baroque Easton Neston, and the interiors of Althorp provide a fascinating survey of changing taste through the centuries. Complementing them are smaller buildings of great character, supreme among them those of Sir Thomas Tresham: the eccentric and ingenious Triangular Lodge at Rushton and the evocative New Beild at Lyveden. Of no less interest are the fine... Some of England's grandest country houses are to be found in this prosperous rural county. The Elizabethan Renaissance Kirby Hall, the Jacobean man... |
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310,43 zł |
Lancashire: Manchester and the South-East
ISBN: 9780300105834 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 748 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. This complete guide to the buildings of South-East Lancashire features the proud municipal buildings and pioneering mills and transport structures at the heart of the great industrial city of Manchester. The book also offers full accounts of the suburbs, the city of Salford, and the industrial towns of Bolton, Bury, Rochdale, and Oldham, each with its own tradition of civic buildings and its own crop of talented local architects. A general introduction to the volume provides a historical and artistic overview of South-East Lancashire's architecture, and each city, town, or village is... This complete guide to the buildings of South-East Lancashire features the proud municipal buildings and pioneering mills and transport structures ... |
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332,01 zł |
Oxfordshire: Oxford and the South-East
ISBN: 9780300209297 / Angielski Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 8-10 dni roboczych (Dostawa przed świętami) |
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232,83 zł |