A study on Sir Nikolaus Pevsner's diverse art-cultural studies

• Project/Area Number: 24520188
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Study of the arts/History of the arts/Arts in general
• Research Institution: Ferris University
• Principal Investigator: KONDO Ariyuki フェリス女学院大学, 文学部, 教授 (00323288)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
• Budget Amount: ¥3,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,000,000、Indirect Cost: ¥900,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,170,000 (Direct Cost: ¥900,000、Indirect Cost: ¥270,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥2,080,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,600,000、Indirect Cost: ¥480,000)
• Keywords: ニコラウス・ペヴスナー / 芸術文化史 / 近代デザイン史 / イギリス美術史 / 時代精神 / 中世主義 / デザイン史 / 国民性 / 芸術文化史学 / 美術史 / 建築史 / デザイン教育 / 20世紀

Outline of Final Research Achievements

According to Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, the historian must always be aware of "contemporary developments" in society and must confront "contemporary needs". Galvanized by the dire social conditions in Germany in the early 1930s, Pevsner came to assert that the art historian whose subject of interest is the "visual expression of the history of man's mind" can no longer shut himself off from contemporary needs. In Pevsner's view, art historians had to "reconcile scholarship and direct utility" and, through their knowledge and appreciation of how artists and designers in the past confronted the needs of their times and worked for the good of society, could contribute to their contemporary society. Such functionalist-views of Pevsner constituted the bedrock of his diverse art-cultural studies, unhindered by distinctions between different types of artistic creation, viz., painting, architecture, decorative arts and industrial design, etc.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 「ニコラウス・ペヴスナーの〈作者不詳の美学〉―大量生産時代の芸術的課題」 (2015)
  • Author(s): 近藤存志
  • Journal Title: 『フェリス女学院大学文学部紀要』 Volume: 50 Pages: 19-57
  • NAID: 120005754080
  • Acknowledgement Compliant
• [Journal Article] Pevsner on Graphic Design: Transnationality and the Historiography of Design (2014)
  • Author(s): Ariyuki Kondo（近藤存志）
  • Journal Title: Iridescent: ICOGRADA Journal of Design Research Volume: 2(4) Pages: 5-14
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Pevsner on Democracy in Architecture: 1947-1972 (2014)
  • 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: 49 Pages: 1-15
• [Journal Article] ヘンリー・Ａ・ティピング著『イングランドの邸宅建築』と『イングランドの庭園』について (2013)
  • Author(s): 近藤存志
  • Journal Title: ヘンリー・Ａ・ティピング著『写真図説イギリスの邸宅建築と庭園』別冊日本語解説 Volume: N/A Pages: 5-15
• [Journal Article] Pevsner on Graphic Design: Transnationality and the Historiography of Design (2013)
  • Author(s): 近藤存志（Ariyuki Kondo）
  • Journal Title: Iridescent (ICOGRADA online journal) Volume: Special Issue
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] Pevsner on Design Education: Meeting Contemporary Needs through the Teaching of Art History (2012)
  • Author(s): 近藤存志（Ariyuki Kondo）
  • Journal Title: Priscila Lena Farias, et al. (eds.), Design Frontiers: Territories, Concepts, Technologies (Sao Paulo: Bluecher) Volume: N/A Pages: 54-58
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Presentation] 「ニコラウス・ペヴスナーの〈作者不詳の美学〉―大量生産時代の芸術的課題」 (2014)
  • Author(s): 近藤存志
  • Organizer: 第56回意匠学会大会
  • Place of Presentation: お茶の水女子大学
  • Year and Date: 2014-07-26 – 2014-07-27
• [Presentation] Distrusting ‘the Taste of the Majority’: Pevsner on Democracy in Architecture (2013)
  • Author(s): 近藤存志（Ariyuki Kondo）
  • Organizer: The 19th International Congress of Aesthetics
  • Place of Presentation: Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
• [Presentation] Creativity within a National-Geographical Framework: An Examination of the Proposition Raised in Nikolaus Pevsner’s ‘The Geography of Art’ in the Context of Modern Japanese Design History (2013)
  • Author(s): 近藤存志（Ariyuki Kondo）
  • Organizer: Design History Society Annual Conference 2013
  • Place of Presentation: National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India
• [Presentation] Pevsner on Design Education: Meeting Contemporary Needs through the Teaching of Art History (2012)
  • Author(s): 近藤存志（Ariyuki Kondo）
  • Organizer: ICDHS 2012 8th Conference of the International Committee for Design History and Design Studies
  • Place of Presentation: Universidade Presbiteriana Mackenzie and Universidade de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
• [Presentation] Pevsner on Graphic Design: Transnationality and the Historiography of Design (2012)
  • Author(s): 近藤存志（Ariyuki Kondo）
  • Organizer: 2012 AIGA Design Educators Conference. Geographics: Design, Education and the Transnational Terrain
  • Place of Presentation: University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
• [Presentation] Distrusting ‘the Taste of the Majority’: Pevsner on Democracy in Architecture
  • Author(s): Ariyuki Kondo（近藤存志）
  • Organizer: 19th International Congress of Aesthetics
  • Place of Presentation: Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
• [Presentation] Creativity within a National-Geographical Framework: Pevsner’s ‘The Geography of Art’ in the Context of Modern Japanese Design History
  • Author(s): Ariyuki Kondo（近藤存志）
  • Organizer: Design History Society Annual Conference: ‘Towards Global Histories of Design: Postcolonial Perspectives’
  • Place of Presentation: National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India
• [Presentation] Quiet, Humane and ‘Anonymous’: Pevsner’s Art-Historical Response to Wartime
  • Author(s): Ariyuki Kondo（近藤存志）
  • Organizer: Design History Society Annual Conference: ‘Design for War and Peace’
  • Place of Presentation: Department for Continuing Education, Kellogg College, University of Oxford
• [Book] Designing Worlds: National Design Histories in an Age of Globalization (2016)
  • Author(s): Kjetil Fallan, Grace Lees-Maffei, Sandra Alfody, Dipti Bhagat, Marta Filipová, D. J. Huppatz, Noel Waite, Ariyuki Kondo, Jacques Lange, Jeanne van Eeden, Patricia Lara-Betancourt, Nicolas P. Maffei, Livia Rezende, Stina Teilmann-Lock, et. al.
  • Publisher: Berghahn Books
• [Book] 『光と影で見る近代建築』 (2015)
  • Author(s): 近藤存志
  • Publisher: 角川学芸出版
• [Remarks] University of Oxford: Podcast: 2014 DHS
  • URL: http://podcasts.ox.ac.uk/quiet-humane-and-anonymous-pevsner-s-art-historical-response-wartime