De Stijl and Dutch modernism

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CRITICAL artists or a single topic that PERSPECTIVES deserve contemporary assessment.
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The series offers authors the chance to reassess canonical works and movements in the light of new interpretative frameworks, while alsó welcoming texts on previously neglected areas of visual culture.
'This stimulating and originál book represents a valuable and significant contribution to the scholarship on De Stijl. In elucidating theoretical complexities of the different positions adopted by the various artists and architects, Dr White overturns many dearly and long-held assumptions about the movement and throws important new light on its history.' Martin Hammer, University of Edinburgh
The name De Stijl, title of a magaziné founded in the Netherlands in 1917, is now used to identify the abstract art and functional architecture of its major contributors: Mondrian, Van Doesburg, Van der Leck, Oud, Wils and Rietveld. De Stijl achieved international acclaim by the end of the 1920S and its... Tovább

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CRITICAL artists or a single topic that PERSPECTIVES deserve contemporary assessment.
fi
The series offers authors the chance to reassess canonical works and movements in the light of new interpretative frameworks, while alsó welcoming texts on previously neglected areas of visual culture.
'This stimulating and originál book represents a valuable and significant contribution to the scholarship on De Stijl. In elucidating theoretical complexities of the different positions adopted by the various artists and architects, Dr White overturns many dearly and long-held assumptions about the movement and throws important new light on its history.' Martin Hammer, University of Edinburgh
The name De Stijl, title of a magaziné founded in the Netherlands in 1917, is now used to identify the abstract art and functional architecture of its major contributors: Mondrian, Van Doesburg, Van der Leck, Oud, Wils and Rietveld. De Stijl achieved international acclaim by the end of the 1920S and its paintings, buildings and furniture made fundamental contributions to the modern movement.
This book is the first to emphasize the local context of De Stijl and explore its relationship to the distinctive character of Dutch modernism. It examines how the debates concerning abstraction in painting and spatiality in architecture were intimately connected to contemporary developments in the fields of úrban planning, advertising, interior design and exhibition design. The book describes the interaction between the world of mass culture and the fine arts.
De Stijl and Dutch modernism is an important addition to research on the interwar avant-garde and will be invaluable to students and specialists in the field.
Michael White is Lecturer in History of Art at the University of York
Cover illustration: Theo van Doesburg and Cor van Eesteren, Colour Design for a Shoppittg Parade and Café-Restaurant, 1914. Courtesy of Netherlands Architecture Institure Vissza