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Sir Nikolaus Pevsner: A Social Reformer

Research Project

Project/Area Number 15K02123
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)

Allocation TypeMulti-year Fund
Section一般
Research Field Aesthetics and studies on art
Research InstitutionFerris University

Principal Investigator

Kondo Ariyuki  フェリス女学院大学, 文学部, 教授 (00323288)

Project Period (FY) 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2017)
Budget Amount *help
¥4,160,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,200,000、Indirect Cost: ¥960,000)
Fiscal Year 2017: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
Fiscal Year 2016: ¥1,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥300,000)
Fiscal Year 2015: ¥2,210,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,700,000、Indirect Cost: ¥510,000)
Keywordsイギリス芸術文化史 / 社会改良 / デザイン史 / ニコラウス・ペヴスナー / 芸術文化史学 / モダン・デザイン / 日用の美 / イギリス美術史 / 中世主義 / 芸術文化史
Outline of Final Research Achievements

Sir Nikolaus Pevsner is known today as an art historian with a vast number of publications, and the subjects of those publications reflect the wide range of his interest in artistic creativity. Admiring the monumental achievements of this scholar, one cannot but ask what drove Pevsner to explore art in such a wide and varied way. The answer seems to lie in his role as a social reformer who aimed to improve the standard of living of the general public through art-historical education, for instance, by presenting modern design as ‘the only adequate expression’ of the mode of life in mid-twentieth century Britain. Rather than concentrating on art history as an academic subject in British higher education, Pevsner chose to emphasize the importance of developing the aesthetic faculties of the general public and, by so doing, end the monopoly of the elite in art, design and architecture.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2017 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report ( PDF )
  • 2016 Research-status Report
  • 2015 Research-status Report
  • Research Products

    (14 results)

All 2018 2017 2016 2015

All Journal Article (5 results) (of which Open Access: 3 results,  Peer Reviewed: 2 results,  Acknowledgement Compliant: 3 results) Presentation (8 results) (of which Int'l Joint Research: 6 results) Book (1 results)

  • [Journal Article] “Nikolaus Pevsner: Talking Industrial Design to the Workers’ Educational Association”2018

    • Author(s)
      Ariyuki Kondo(近藤存志)
    • Journal Title

      『フェリス女学院大学文学部紀要』

      Volume: 53 Pages: 47-65

    • NAID

      120006380678

    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Open Access
  • [Journal Article] “To Design Well is a ‘Moral Duty’: Nikolaus Pevsner’s Modern-Medievalist Appeal”2017

    • Author(s)
      Ariyuki Kondo(近藤存志)
    • Journal Title

      Aesthetics(『国際版 美学』)

      Volume: No. 20

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] “Talking Homes: Pevsner’s patient campaign for social reformation”2017

    • Author(s)
      Ariyuki Kondo(近藤存志)
    • Journal Title

      Conference Proceeding: House and Home ’17 / International Interdisciplinary Architecture and urban Studies Conference, Istanbul: DAKAM Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Center

      Volume: N/A Pages: 33-41

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Open Access / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Journal Article] 「ドレスデンのペヴスナー―キリスト教信仰、表現主義、そして20世紀芸術に対する美術史的関心」2017

    • Author(s)
      近藤存志
    • Journal Title

      『フェリス女学院大学キリスト教研究所紀要』

      Volume: 2号 Pages: 51-70

    • NAID

      120006240920

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Journal Article] “Anomy in Design: Sir Nikolaus Pevsner’s Admonition to ‘Democratic' Society”2016

    • Author(s)
      Ariyuki Kondo(近藤存志)
    • Journal Title

      Making Trans/National Contemporary Design History

      Volume: N/A Pages: 223-227

    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Peer Reviewed / Acknowledgement Compliant
  • [Presentation] “Talking Homes: A Pevsner’s patient campaign for social reformation”2017

    • Author(s)
      Ariyuki Kondo(近藤存志)
    • Organizer
      HOUSE & HOME '17 / International Interdisciplinary Architecture and Urban Studies Conference (DAKAM: Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Center)
    • Place of Presentation
      Eastern Mediterranean Academic Research Center, Istanbul, Turkey
    • Year and Date
      2017-03-03
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] “Nikolaus Pevsner’s ‘Neo-Victorianism’: What a Modernist-Functionalist saw in Victorian Architecture”2017

    • Author(s)
      Ariyuki Kondo(近藤存志)
    • Organizer
      12th International Conference on the Arts in Society (The Arts in Society Research Network) (The American University of Paris, France)
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] “Nikolaus Pevsner’s Vision as an Editor: The Architectural Review and twentieth-century democratisation of architecture”2017

    • Author(s)
      Ariyuki Kondo(近藤存志)
    • Organizer
      “Editing the Twentieth Century” Conference (The British Library)
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] “Nikolaus Pevsner: Talking Industrial Design to the Workers’ Educational Association”2017

    • Author(s)
      Ariyuki Kondo(近藤存志)
    • Organizer
      意匠学会第59回大会
    • Related Report
      2017 Annual Research Report
  • [Presentation] ‘Anomy in Design: Nikolaus Pevsner’s admonition to “democratic” society’2016

    • Author(s)
      Ariyuki Kondo (近藤存志)
    • Organizer
      The 10th International Conference on Design History and Design Studies, ICDHS: International Conferences on Design History and Studies
    • Place of Presentation
      National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan
    • Year and Date
      2016-10-26
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] “Die Bruecke between Time and Design: Young Pevsner’s Expressionist Search for Timeless Criteria in Good Design”2016

    • Author(s)
      Ariyuki Kondo(近藤存志)
    • Organizer
      The Arts in Society Research Network: The 11th International Conference on the Arts in Society
    • Place of Presentation
      UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
    • Year and Date
      2016-08-10
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Presentation] 「ドレスデンのペヴスナー―表現主義絵画におけるヨーロッパ中世主義の〈精神〉」2016

    • Author(s)
      近藤存志
    • Organizer
      意匠学会:第58回大会
    • Place of Presentation
      京都精華大学
    • Year and Date
      2016-07-30
    • Related Report
      2016 Research-status Report
  • [Presentation] ‘To Design Well is a “Moral Duty”: Nikolaus Pevsner’s Modern-Medievalist Appraisal of Design’2015

    • Author(s)
      Ariyuki Kondo (近藤存志)
    • Organizer
      2015 Annual Design History Society Conference, “How We Live, and How we Might Live”: Design and the Spirit of Critical Utopianism
    • Place of Presentation
      California College of the Arts, San Francisco, California, USA
    • Year and Date
      2015-09-11
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report
    • Int'l Joint Research
  • [Book] KADOKAWA/角川学芸出版2015

    • Author(s)
      近藤存志
    • Total Pages
      264
    • Publisher
      『光と影で見る近代建築』
    • Related Report
      2015 Research-status Report

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Published: 2015-04-16   Modified: 2019-03-29  

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