Synopses & Reviews
These nine essays provide a biographically vivid and pluralist view of the periodical De Stijl in the important early period of its development. They provide, new biographical information and fresh analysis of the painters van Doesburg, Mondrian, Vilmos Huszar, and Bart van der Leck, the painter-sculptor Georges Vantonger-loo, architects Oud, Robert van't Hoff, Jan Wits, and furniture designer turned architect Gerrit Rietveld
Caret Blotkamp is Professor of Art History at the Free University of Amsterdam.
Review
"The wealth of new visual and documentary material this study presents will insure its lasting value in the literature about De Stijl."
—Nancy J. Troy, Northwestern University
Review
"A well-illustrated and well-documented survey of this crucial period of De Stijl's existence, which will not only cast light on some of the murkiest of corners but also dispel not a few well-entrenched myths."
—Art Monthly
Synopsis
These nine essays provide a biographically vivid and pluralist view of the periodical De Stijl in the important early period of its development.