De Stijl
By: Paul Overy.
Series: World of art
Publisher: Thames and Hudson; Thames & Hudson
Published: 1991
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: De Stijl (Art movement) -- Netherlands; Art, Dutch -- 20th century
Description: This volume is a survey that 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. De Stijl ("The Style"--Also known as neoplasticism) 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-207) and index.