Pevsner on Art and Architecture: The Radio Talks

by Nikolaus Pevsner

Nikolaus Pevsner's contribution to the public appreciation of art and architecture is immense. In addition to the famous Buildings of England books, he was a broadcaster for the BBC. Ranging from Breughel's paintings and the buildings of Gaudi, to Elizabethan mannerism, and contemporary American architecture, these radio scripts are uniquely evocative word pictures. Includes Stephen Games' controversial introduction discussing Pevsner's intellectual development and possible Nazi sympathies. Sir Nikolaus Pevsner (190283) was one of the most influential writers architecture of the 20th century. He wrote the 46-volume series The Buildings of England .

400 pages, Paperback

First published May 25, 2003

About the author

Sir Nikolaus Pevsner was one of the twentieth century's most learned and stimulating writers on art and architecture. He established his reputation with Pioneers of Modern Design, though he is probably best known for his celebrated series of guides, The Buildings of England, acknowledged as one of the great achievements of twentieth-century scholarship. He was also founding editor of The Pelican History of Art, the most comprehensive and scholarly history of art ever published in English.