TY - BOOK AU - Pevsner,Nikolaus TI - Pioneers of modern design: from William Morris to Walter Gropius SN - 0300105711 AV - N6450 .P4 2005 PY - 2005/// CY - New Haven, Conn., London PB - Yale University Press KW - Modern movement (Architecture) KW - Modernism (Art) KW - Design KW - History KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Designers KW - Biography KW - Mouvement moderne (Architecture) KW - Modernisme (Art) KW - Histoire KW - 19e siècle KW - 20e siècle KW - Art KW - fast KW - Beeldende kunsten KW - gtt KW - Vormgeving KW - Bouwkunst KW - Art nouveau KW - rasuqam KW - Arts and Crafts Movement KW - Théorie de l'art KW - 18e siècle N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 180-185) and index; Introduction / Richard Weston -- Forewords to the first, second and third editions / Nikolaus Pevsner -- 1. Theories of art from Morris to Gropius -- John Ruskin -- William Morris -- The arts and crafts movement -- Deutscher Werkbund -- 2. From eighteen-fifty-one to Morris and the arts and crafts movement -- The great exhibition -- Owen Jones and The grammar of ornament -- The domestic revival -- The aesthetic movement -- 3. Eighteen-ninety in painting -- Paul Cézanne and the revolution in painting -- The symbolist movement -- The Pont-Aven School -- Poster art -- 4. Art nouveau -- Victor Horta -- Henri Van de Velde -- Louis Comfort Tiffany and Emile Gallé -- Influential magazines -- 5. Engineering and architecture in the nineteenth century -- Railway stations -- The Chicago School -- Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc -- Gustave Eiffel -- 6. England, eighteen-ninety to nineteen-fourteen -- Japonisme -- The garden city movement -- Mackintosh and the Glasgow School -- Charles Francis Annesley Voysey -- 7. The modern movement before nineteen-fourteen -- The Vienna Sezession and Wiener Werkstatte -- Expressionism -- Frank Lloyd Wright -- Walter Gropius and the modern movement N2 - "This expanded edition of Pioneers of Modern Design provides Pevsner's original text along with significant new and revised information, enhancing the author's illuminating account of the roots of Modernism. The book now offers many beautiful color illustrations; updated biographies and bibliographies of all major figures; illustrated short essays on key themes, movements, and individuals; a critique of Pevsner's analysis from today's perspective; examples of works after 1914 (where the original study ended); a biography detailing Pevsner's life and achievements; and much more."--Jacket ER -