De Stijl: 0 (World of Art) - Softcover

Paul Overy

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0500202400 ISBN 13: 9780500202401

Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd, 1991

Synopsis

The ideas that later had such a marked influence on the architecture of Walter Gropius and others of the Bauhaus movement, and subsequently on commercial art and graphic design, were first advocated by the Dutch magazine 'De Stijl'.

About this title

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, 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson Ltd
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0500202400
• ISBN 13: 9780500202401
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 216