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Pevsner: The BBC Years - Listening to the Visual Arts (Paperback)
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Pevsner: The BBC Years - Listening to the Visual Arts (Paperback)
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Pevsner: The BBC Years gives the first full account of Sir Nikolaus
Pevsner's engagement with the BBC at a time when both were the
dominant institutions in their own fields -- Pevsner as the most
persuasive figure in architecture and art history, the BBC as the
country's sole broadcaster. A German emigre, Pevsner was not at
first trusted to speak on the air, and was only invited to appear
at the very end of the war, in spite of his growing eminence in
academia and publishing. With the arrival of the Third Programme in
1946, however, he quickly became a broadcasting celebrity, and one
whom senior BBC figures regarded as essential and novel listening.
Pevsner: The BBC Years looks at the sudden rise in Pevsner's
standing at the BBC, at what he was admired for, and at the
circumstances surrounding his being commissioned, in the mid-1950s,
to give the first series of Reith Lectures on an arts subject --
the relationship between visual expression and national identity.
The book explains the roles played by Geoffrey Grigson, Basil
Taylor, Anna Kallin and Leonie Cohn in advancing Pevsner's BBC
career, analyses the literary character of his broadcasting, and
considers the function of his talks as an extension of European
belletrism. It also demonstrates the significance of his concurrent
editorship of the King Penguin series of books. In addition,
Pevsner: The BBC Years documents the unravelling of Pevsner's
reputation. It shows how he was caught between changing fashions in
media culture and damaged by doubts about the safety of his ideas,
both within the BBC and, externally, among British conservatives
who found him too radical and American radicals who found him too
conservative. In Pevsner: The BBC Years, correspondence from the
BBC's archives provides a case study of scholarly thought being
exposed to independent scrutiny -- a process with lessons for
today.
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