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Item Number: 124364
Title: Pevsner: The Complete Broadcast Talks : Architecture and Art on Radio and Television, 1945-1977
Author: Games, Stephen (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781409461975
Description: Aldershot: Ashgate, 2013. 25cm., hardcover, 598pp. Summary: This book provides the first complete collection of the English-language talks that the art historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner gave on BBC Radio over a 35-year period in the mid-20th century. This represents some 75 talks, on matters concerned with the visual arts and architecture (in a ratio of 2:1). It also includes the seven texts of the 1955 Reith Lectures in their original broadcast form. These talks are important as an example of the attempt by the BBC, from the 1940s to the 1970s, to provide intellectual programming for the mass population. They are important as a case study of the development of one particular historian’s view of a subject that gained ground in universities precisely during the period of these talks and as a result of his popularisation of it. They are important as an illustration of what topics were thought to be central during the mid-years of the last century, whether from an academic or journalistic perspective. They are also important in revealing the mode and manner of academic engagement with the public at the time. Some of these talks were published ten years ago on the occasion of Pevsner’s centenary. At the time, some 20 years after his death, his reputation as active force in the artistic and architectural debate of the day had long been eclipsed and he was no longer being discussed. Since then, there has been a turn-around in attitudes to him and several books and essays have appeared, showing that, from a safe distance, Pevsner’s role within his chosen field is now being actively discussed as central to the study of 20th-century issues. There are therefore excellent reasons for bringing out a complete edition, supplementing the previous volume with another 25 talks for which the 2002 trade volume had no room, and which have not been seen for more than half a century, as well as providing more footnotes and citations than was previously possible, to ensure that this edition can be treated as scholarly and definitive by academics. Contents: Preface; Part 1 Propaganda. Part 2 The Influence of Basil Taylor. Part 3 The Influence of Anna Kallin: Victorian Architecture: Three in Hand: Englishmen’s Castles. Part 4 The Reith Lectures: The Englishness of English Art. Part 5 In Retreat: Nikolaus Pevsner in New Zealand: Town and Country. Part 6 The Influence of Leonie Cohn: The Architect in History: Mannerism and Elizabethan Architecture. Bibliography; Selected textual notes.
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