"Stijl, De" (Picturebacks S.) - Softcover

Overy, Paul

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9780289796214: "Stijl, De" (Picturebacks S.)

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ISBN 10: 0289796210 ISBN 13: 9780289796214

Publisher: Littlehampton Book Services Ltd, 1969

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Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dust-dulled and nicked. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, and clean.; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 167 pages; 167 p. : ill. (somc col.), facsims., plans, ports. ; 19 cm. Illus. (some col.) incl. elevations and plans. Subjects: De Stijl (Art movement). Art - Netherlands - History. Studio Vista/Dutton pictureback.

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From the Back Cover:

De Stijl ('The Style') was the name given to the work of the architects, designers and artists associated with the magazine of the same name 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 to create the ideology and formal language of modernism. Mondrian is De Stijl's best known artist, while Oud, Wils, Huszar and Rietveld were its major architects and designers. Their aim was an objective art concerned with universal values, expressed in primary geometric forms and pure colours. Now De Stijl is reassessed by Paul Overy in the light of Post-modernist debates and recently available documentary material.

About the Author:

Paul Overy was educated at King's College, Cambridge. He lectures on the history of art, architecture and design at London University, the London Institute and Middlesex Polytechnic and as been an art critic for The Times, The Financial Times and The Listener. He is the author of Kandinsky: The Language of the Eye (1969) and an earlier volume on De Stijl and is co-author of The Rietveld Schroder House (1988).

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