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Reviews/Rezensionen Émilie Oléron Evans, Nikolaus Pevsner, Arpenteur des arts. Des origines allemandes de l’histoire de l’art britannique (Paris: Demopolis, 2015), 340 pp. (Pb.) Nikolaus Pevsner’s career as a public intellectual and ultimately as a national institution was launched with the Reith lectures, delivered on the BBC in 1955, and consolidated by his magisterial Buildings of England series, published in 46 volumes between 1951 and 1974. Although justifiably revered as the preeminent voice of his era on the architectural heritage of England, he was by instinct and education both a modernist and a European. The longevity of his monographs is extraordinary. Pioneers of the Modern Movement was first published in 1936: it reappeared under the new title Pioneers of Modern Design in 1949 with the sup- port of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and a sixth, revised edition was still in press in 2005. Similarly, An Outline of European Architecture, commis- sioned in 1942 and published 1943, went into seven editions, was translated into 16 languages, and sold more than half a million copies. No other historian of ar- chitecture or design comes close to Pevsner in terms of sales and thus influence. In acknowledgment of his extraordinary http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Angermion de Gruyter

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Angermion , Volume 11 (1): 14 – Nov 1, 2018
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Émilie Oléron Evans, Nikolaus Pevsner, Arpenteur des arts. Des origines allemandes de l’histoire de l’art britannique (Paris: Demopolis, 2015), 340 pp. (Pb.) Nikolaus Pevsner’s career as a public intellectual and ultimately as a national institution was launched with the Reith lectures, delivered on the BBC in 1955, and consolidated by his magisterial Buildings of England series, published in 46 volumes between 1951 and 1974. Although justifiably revered as the preeminent voice of his era on the architectural heritage of England, he was by instinct and education both a modernist and a European. The longevity of his monographs is extraordinary. Pioneers of the Modern Movement was first published in 1936: it reappeared under the new title Pioneers of Modern Design in 1949 with the sup- port of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and a sixth, revised edition was still in press in 2005. Similarly, An Outline of European Architecture, commis- sioned in 1942 and published 1943, went into seven editions, was translated into 16 languages, and sold more than half a million copies. No other historian of ar- chitecture or design comes close to Pevsner in terms of sales and thus influence. In acknowledgment of his extraordinary

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