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The Artists of De Stijl A Guide to the Literature
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Donald Langmead
ISBN: 0-313-30552-8
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-30552-8
520 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 7/30/2000
List Price: $159.95 (UK Sterling Price: £110.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Series Title: Art Reference Collection
Description: This guide summarizes and evaluates the available literature concerning the Dutch artistic movement De Stijl, which was headed by art critic and painter Theo van Doesburg and was comprised of such architects and artists as J.J.P. Oud, Piet Mondrian, Rovbert van 't Hoff and Georges Vantongerloo. The loose-knit group took its name from the avant garde journal they first published in October 1917: De Stijl (The Style). Although it was limited to Holland, De Stijl promoted ideas about a universal art, combining tenets of theosophy, an holistic view of the oneness of all things, including arts and culture, and socialism. This bibliography examines publications that deal with the movement and with affiliated groups and individual members.

Art historians and scholars of modern and of Dutch art and architecture will appreciate this comprehensive tool for further research. Within individual sections for the movement and for its members, entries are chronologically arranged with separate categories for books, monographs and catalogs, and periodicals. A final section analyzes and presents the contents of the journal De Stijl.
Table of Contents:
  • Preface
    The Artist of De Stijl
    De Stijl: Generic References
    Theo van Doesburg
    César Domela
    Cornelis van Eesteren
    Robert van 't Hoff
    Vilmos Huszár
    Bart van der Leck
    Piet Mondrian
    J.J.P. Oud
    Gerrit Thomas Rietveld
    Georges Vantongerloo
    Jan Wils
    Contents of De Stijl 1917-1932
    Index of Personal Names
About the Author: DONALD LANGMEAD is Professor of Architectural History at the University of South Australia./e His previous publications include J.J.P. Oud and the International Style (Greenwood, 1999), Dutch Modernism (Greenwood, 1996), and Willem Marinus Dudok (Greenwood, 1996). He coauthored, along with Donald Leslie Johnson, Architectural Excursions: Frank Lloyd Wright, Holland and Europe (Greenwood, 2000) and Makers of 20th Century Modern Architecture (Greenwood, 1997).
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