Research Catalog

Title

The story of De Stijl : Mondrian to Van Doesburg / Hans Janssen, Michael White.

Author

Janssen, Hans, 1954-

Publication

Farnham : Lund Humphries, c2011.

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Details

Additional Authors

White, Michael, 1969-

Description

267 p. : ill. (chiefly col.); 29 cm.

Summary

"What was De Stijl? This fascinating survey, the most comphrehensive book to be published on the subject, seeks to unravel that question and to consider how the theory of De Stijl matched its actual practice."--Provided by the publisher.

Subjects

• History
• Art and society > Netherlands > History > 20th century
• Modern movement (Architecture) > Netherlands
• Modernism (Art) > Netherlands
• De Stijl (Art movement)

Genre/Form

• History
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Machine generated contents note: How most of the original protagonists meet and form De Stijl -- 01. famous architect and the headstrong artist -- design of the `art room' at Groot Haesebroeck estate -- 02. downfall of the village -- Mondrian, Laren and the search for an abstract life -- 03. new monumentality -- Van Doesburg and Huszar at the Kroller-Muller collection in The Hague -- 04. `Das colorierte Haus' -- house for notary J. de Lange in Alkmaar -- 05. Of different minds -- Hollandsche Kunstenaarskring exhibition of 1917 -- 06. By bike and by train -- art movement in the new urban environment called the Randstad -- 07. Troubled waters -- Houseboat `De Stijl' -- 08. living proof -- Theories and arguments concerning the form of the new art -- Entr'acte Modernity in fashion -- How the successful collaborations and stumbling-blocks give shape to De Stijl -- 09. Radical art and radical politics -- colour design for the house of Bart de Ligt in Katwijk aan Zee -- 10. ethics of straight lines -- Huszar-Zwart debate at the Haagsche Kunstkring -- 11. promising scheme -- enthusiastic response to the Papaverhof houses in The Hague -- 12. Housing and collectivity -- Oud and Van Doesburg and their almost invisible solutions for the Spangen apartment blocks in Rotterdam -- 13. dynamics of progress -- Section d'Or exhibition, Theo van Doesburg and Jan Toorop -- 14. Dada and De Stijl -- artist writes about modern life -- 15. `I am no house painter. I take these things very seriously...' -- collaboration between Oud and Van Doesburg on the housing blocks for Spangen II -- 16. For readers on the move -- new format for a modern magazine -- 17. birth of modem city planning -- Van Eesteren meets Van Doesburg in Weimar -- 18. Dada Tour of Holland -- Everything was dada, except the prices -- 19. Far Flung Corner of a World City -- businesslike but very Dutch solutions to the architecture in the Tusschendijken district -- 20. `The practical execution of the Stijl idea' -- Rosenberg exhibition -- 21. How do you want to live? -- emancipated woman's views on child rearing, and the new architecture of the Rietveld-Schroder House -- Entr'acte Stylishly dressed -- How the problems of 1925 turn De Stijl into a permanently disintegrating movement -- 22. Counter-compositions -- role of dance and women in modern life -- 23. applied arts swindle -- Exposition internationale des Arts decoratifs et industriels modernes, Paris, 1925 -- 24. `The cold kills the microbes' -- City of Circulation -- 25. painting in three dimensions -- `Salle des Fleurs' for a lavish villa in the south of France -- 26. `Not as sectarian as (the late!) "De Stijl".' -- Cesar Domela, Arthur Lehning, Piet Mondrian and i10 -- 27. Advertising as Fine Art -- Vilmos Huszar and the Miss Blanche cigarette advertising campaign -- 28. Hour of Town Planning with Van Eesteren -- New approaches to the rationalisation of town planning -- 29. building of movement -- design forthe Aubette centre in Strasbourg -- 30. `Down with conservatism' -- CIAM meeting at La Sarraz with Rietveld and Berlage -- 31. tubular chair -- exhibition and a copyright issue -- 32. `Dwelling Fords'? -- solution to the re-housing problem for rock-bottom incomes -- 33. Mondrian in his studio -- `A pure world (your work) has shown us and thus have we become aware of it' -- Entr'acte Right down to the glass cloths... -- 34. `A daily joy' -- Bruynzeel kitchen and the `standardisation' of women's work -- 35. Back to the Future -- Dutch contribution at the New York World's Fair of 1939.

ISBN

• 9781848220942 (hbk.)
• 1848220944 (hbk.)

OCLC

751803305

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library