De Stijl: 0 (World of Art)

De Stijl: 0 (World of Art)

by PaulOvery (Author)

Synopsis

De Stijl ("The Style") was the name given to the work of the architects, designers and artists associated with the magazine of the same title edited by Theo van Doesburg and founded in Holland in 1917. De Stijl was international in its outlook: in contact with the Bauhaus and the Russian Constructivists, it helped create the ideology and formal language of modernism. This survey illuminates the works of Mondrian and the architecture and designs of Oud, Wils, Huszar and Rietveld, all of whom aimed to create an objective art concerned with universal values, expressed in primary geometric forms and pure colors. 157 illus., 17 in color.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 216
Edition: 1
Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
Published: 05 Aug 1991

ISBN 10: 0500202400
ISBN 13: 9780500202401
Book Overview: An examination of De Stijl (`The Style'), the artistic movement founded in Amsterdam in 1917

Author Bio
Paul Overy, who died in August 2008, was Senior Research Fellow in the history and theory of modernism at Middlesex University, London. His publications also include books on Wassily Kandinsky, Norman Foster, and the architecture and furniture of Gerrit Rietveld.