Stylistic Cold Wars: Betjeman Versus Pevsner - Couverture rigide

Mowl, Timothy

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 071955909X ISBN 13 : 9780719559099

Editeur : John Murray Publishers Ltd, 2000

Synopsis

John Betjeman and Nikolaus Pevsner were opposites. Both, however, had a profound influence on the way Britain looks today. This work charts their contemporaneous rise as style warriors. In Pevsner's case, it examines his transformation from a respected German art historian, specializing in Mannerism, to the determined exponent of international modernism, intent on the imposition of a functional townscape upon post-war Britain. In Betjeman's case, it explores his conversion from idealistic young journalist, acclaiming the dawn of the machine age, concrete, steel and all, to the great lyric poet, who, in mourning the destruction of our historic landmarks and towns, effectively launched the Heritage Industry. As Timothy Mowl reveals in this study, the two rivals became, behind a polite facade, irreconcilable foes who fought for the supremacy of their alternative visions until the same fatal illness struck them down.

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À propos de l'auteur

Timothy Mowl has written revisionist biographies of Horace Walpole (1996) and William Beckford (1998), and academic studies on Elizabethan and Jacobean style, Inigo Jones and John Wood the Elder in the same questioning spirit. The two books which have led him to this present analysis of the tensions between John Betjeman and Nikolaus Pevsner were The Sack of Bath - And After (1989), co-written with Adam Fergusson, and Cheltenham Betrayed (1995). Both concerned the defence of places threatened by the pervasive British uncertainly on all matters of architectural style and urban values.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: John Murray Publishers Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 071955909X
• ISBN 13: 9780719559099
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 188
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Buchpark GmbH; gpsr@buchpark.de; ; Krügerweg 1; Trebbin; Brandenburg; 14959; Allemagne