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The Journal of the Asian Conference of Design History and Theory. 2020, 3, p. 98-107

Design and Social Conscience : Nikolaus Pevsner’s Ethics of Design in the 1930s

Kondo, Ariyuki

The ACDHT 2019 FUKUOKA Executive Committee

英語

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2020-03

Theme II : Design Philosophy

Partly due to his early political naïvete, which later often led to him being mistakenly accused of being pro-Nazi, Nikolaus Pevsner, a German-born Russian Jew, expressed on multiple occasions, as far back as the early 1930s, a positive view of National Socialism, as he had initially been caught up by the idea that National Socialists could effect positive changes in design enterprises in post-World War I Germany that would ultimately solve problems such as shortage of housing, improved living conditions for ordinary people, etc. At the same time that Pevsner was stating his overly optimistic view he began to concern himself with the importance of the ethics of design in contributing to the task of improving living conditions and fulfilling practical, everyday needs. Through an examination of Pevsner’s lecture ‘Post-War Tendencies in German Art Schools’, delivered at the Royal Society of Arts in London in December 1935 and published the following month in the Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, this paper intends to explore the ways in which Pevsner’s concern for 1) ‘sound’ art and design capable of serving the community and 2) art/design education, ‘constructive and representative of the contemporary age’, was to germinate in the mid-1930s and subsequently develop into his principle of the ethics of design.

10.18910/90923

90923

Design and Social Conscience : Nikolaus Pevsner’s Ethics of Design in the 1930s

Kondo, Ariyuki

The ACDHT 2019 FUKUOKA Executive Committee

英語

2020-03

The Journal of the Asian Conference of Design History and Theory

3

98

107

https://hdl.handle.net/11094/90923

10.18910/90923

https://doi.org/10.18910/90923