Nikolaus Pevsner was the best known architectural historian of the twentieth century, admired for dedicating his career to areas of English architecture. This book analyses one of England's celebrity scholars - a man who, against the backdrop of Hitler and the politics of the 1930s, had to rethink his career when England offered him his refuge.
Nikolaus Pevsner was the best known architectural historian of the twentieth century, admired for dedicating his career to areas of English architectu...
This book brings together the surviving texts of the 113 talks on art and architecture that we know of, given by the art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner on radio and television between 1945--1977. It includes the seven texts of the 1955 Reith Lectures in their original broadcast form, as well as lectures that Pevsner gave in German (for the BBC in London and RIAS in Berlin) and on the radio in New Zealand. These talks are important as an example of the attempt by the BBC in particular to provide intellectual programming for the mass population. The talks are important for what they reveal...
This book brings together the surviving texts of the 113 talks on art and architecture that we know of, given by the art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsne...
