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Visual Planning and the Picturesque
. Pevsner
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Description for Visual Planning and the Picturesque
Hardback.
This is a previously unpublished work by one of the most important architectural historians of the twentieth century. This previously unpublished work by Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983), one of the twentieth-century's most widely read scholars of art and architectural history, was begun in the mid-1940s. The unfinished manuscript is something of an anomaly in his vast oeuvre of writings in so far as it sought to complement the body of thought emerging in postwar Britain that was concerned with urban design, generally referred to as 'Townscape'. As assembled and annotated here, "Visual Planning and the Picturesque" comprises three parts. The first ... Read more
This is a previously unpublished work by one of the most important architectural historians of the twentieth century. This previously unpublished work by Nikolaus Pevsner (1902-1983), one of the twentieth-century's most widely read scholars of art and architectural history, was begun in the mid-1940s. The unfinished manuscript is something of an anomaly in his vast oeuvre of writings in so far as it sought to complement the body of thought emerging in postwar Britain that was concerned with urban design, generally referred to as 'Townscape'. As assembled and annotated here, "Visual Planning and the Picturesque" comprises three parts. The first ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Getty Trust Publications United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Santa Monica CA, United States
ISBN
9781606060018
SKU
V9781606060018
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99-16
About . Pevsner
Nikolaus Pevsner was a German-born British scholar of the history of art and architecture best known for his forty-six volume series of county architecture guides, The Buildings of England (1951-1974). Matthew Aitchison is a lecturer in architecture and urban design at Queen's University Belfast.
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