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The first biography of Nikolaus Pevsner, the best known and most important architectural historian of the twentieth-century.
List of contents
Introduction; Home; Family; Friends; Death; History; University; Leipzig; Pinder; Dissertation; Mannerism; Dresden; Gottingen; Interlude; Modernity; Hitler; Dismissal; England; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.
About the author
Stephen Games is an author and editor. His books include John Betjeman's Trains and Buttered Toast, Tennis Whites and Teacakes, Sweet Songs of Zion and most recently Betjeman's England. He is the author of Behind the Facade and editor of Pevsner on Art and Architecture, the collection of Pevsner's radio talks in which he first revealed some of the paradoxes of Pevsner's German past. He was educated at the Central School of Art and Magdalene College, Cambridge, made documentaries for BBC Radio and was the first arts correspondent of The Independent. His architectural reviews for The Guardian earned him a British Press Award. He has written for the Los Angeles Times and been deputy editor of the RIBA Journal.
