Description
The De Stijl protagonist’s elucidation of the basics of neoplasticism
Painter, writer, architect, typographer, art theorist and leader of the De Stijl movement, Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931) was one of the great modernist polymaths, and in this volume of the Bauhausbücher, he attempts to make elementary concepts in the visual arts generally comprehensible for a broad audience.
Van Doesburg’s book addresses the “modern artist” of his day, who had to deal with both shifting social paradigms and a changing understanding of art and art theory. Unifying a range of disciplines, van Doesburg describes theory as a necessary consequence of creative practice: artists, he says, “do not write about art but from within art.”
Principles of Neo-Plastic Art is a revolutionary synthesis of practice and theory.
- Edited by Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy
- Hardcover
- Lars Müller Publishers, 2021
- 68 pages, 7 x 9 inches
- 1 color and 31 black & white illustrations
- ISBN: 9783037786291
