Author: Fabre, Gladys & Doris Wintgens Hötte (eds.)
Title: Van Doesburg & the international avant-garde : constructing a new world.
Description: With essays by Marc Dachy [and others]. London : Tate, 2009. Paperback. 264 pp. 27 cm. Ills. English text. Catalog of exhibition held Oct. 20, 2009-Jan. 3, 2010 Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal (Leiden, Netherlands) and Feb. 4-May 16, 2010 Tate Modern, London. Mailorder only - Alleen verzending mogelijk. Book condition : as new. - Dutch artist Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931) is perhaps best known as a prime mover in De Stijl, the Dutch artistic movement that demanded an extreme simplicity and abstraction in both architecture and painting. Here, the true extent of his influence is explored, demonstrating that it reached far beyond Holland. Contents : Van Doesburg tackles the continent : passion, drive & calculation / Doris Wintgens Hötte -- De Stijl and the East-West avant-garde : magazines & the formation of international networks / Krisztina Passuth -- 'Life is an extraordinary invention' : Doesburg the Dadaist / Marc Dachy -- Theo van Doesburg & the destruction of architectural theory / Henk Engel -- A universal language for the arts : interdisciplinarity as a practice, film as a model / Gladys Fabre -- Towards a spatio-temporality in painting / Gladys Fabre -- Theo van Doesburg : a counter-life / Michael White. ISBN 9781854378729.

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