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Hardcover | 21 x 2.5 x 26 cm | 304 pp
Hatje Cantz | 2011 | 9783775730235
This beautifully produced clothbound volume looks at the full arc of Mondrian's evolution, from his early works executed in Neoimpressionist and Luminist idioms to his arrival at a pure Neoplastic abstraction, and traces De Stijl's extrapolations of Mondrian's art into a multidisciplinary utopian design project.
With the exception of the Bauhaus, there is most likely no other art movement of the first half of the twentieth century that has had such an influence on our everyday lives as the De Stijl group around Piet Mondrian and Theo van Doesburg.
Mondrian, alongside Wassily Kandinsky and Kasimir Malevich one of abstract painting s founding fathers, created strictly geometrical paintings that today are icons of modernism. Their characteristic structure with fields of primary colours framed in black has long assumed a life of its own in art, fashion, advertising, and popular culture.
