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Title: STYLISTIC COLD WARS
BETJEMAN VERSUS PEVSNER
By: Timothy Mowl
Format: Hardback

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ISBN 10: 071955909X
ISBN 13: 9780719559099
Publisher: HODDER & STOUGHTON GENERAL DIVISION
Pub. date: 16 March, 2000
Pages: 188
Description: John Betjeman and Nikolaus Pevsner were opposites. Both, however, had a profound influence on the way Britain looks today. This work charts their rise as style warriors and reveals how they became, behind a polite facade, foes who fought for the supremacy of their alternative visions.
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.
Illustrations: index, frontispiece
Publication: UK
Imprint: John Murray Publishers Ltd
Returns: Non-returnable
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