IN 1933, SHORTLY AFTER fleeing the Nazis and arriving in London, a young German art historian wrote to the wife he had left behind in Gottingen. He had found a tiny room in Hampstead Garden Suburb, he ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nikolaus Pevsner in Dorset, May 1970 Like a greedy boy at prep school receiving a cake through the post, my eyes widened whenever ...

Pevsner on Art and Architecture: The Radio Talks by Nikolaus Pevsner edited by Stephen Games Methuen £20, pp400 No one ever placed his faith more squarely in the power of labels than Sir Nikolaus ...

As a young man in Germany in the 1920s Nikolaus Pevsner wrote to himself: "I must become something." His exhortation was not wasted, although what he eventually became was not what he had envisaged.

Visual Planning and the Picturesque, by Nikolaus Pevsner and Mathew Aitchison, Getty, May 2010, £21.95 Pevsner In 1942, Hubert de Cronin Hastings, owner of the Architectural Press, which at that time ...

On the completed revisions to Nikolaus Pevsner’s Buildings of England series. Pevsner had acquired a doctorate from Leipzig University in 1924, when he was not quite twenty-three; his thesis was on ...

4 Extra Debut. Tom Dyckhoff goes in search of Nikolaus Pevsner, who opened our eyes greatly to the art and architecture of Britain. From 2016. Show more Tom Dyckhoff goes in search of Sir Nikolaus ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Life & Arts news every morning. This is a tremendous book about a subject that engages us all. On one level, it is simply a biography of ...

"MacSpaunday" was the dismissive nickname once given to the seemingly interchangeable poets of the 1930s: Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender, W.H. Auden, and Cecil Day-Lewis. This oft-repeated jibe ...

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Children’s author Stella Pevsner, widely known for her middle grade and YA novels that often addressed problems like divorce or sibling rivalry, died on June 11 at her home in Albuquerque, N.M. She ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter To say a building is "mentioned in Pevsner" is no less a wow factor than a listing in the Domesday Book. The Buildings of England ...