Theo Van Doesburg : Principles of Neo-Plastic Art
Subtitle: Bauhausbücher 6
Publisher: Lars Muller Publishers
Published: 2021
Language: eng
Number of pages: 39
ISBN-13: 9783037786291
Description: Theo van Doesburg was a jack of all trades: painter, writer, architect, typographer, and art theorist. In this volume of the Bauhausbücher, he attempts to make elementary concepts in the visual arts generally comprehensible. He was addressing the "modern artist" of his day, who had to deal with both shifting social paradigms and a changing understanding of art and art theory. Van Doesburg describes theory as a necessary consequence of creative practice. Artists, he says, "do not write about art but from within art."