Preview and Complete Catalogue Hatje Cantz Verlag Fall 2011

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❙ This volume deals with Mondrian’s path to the abstract as well
as De Stijl's interdisciplinary approach
With the exception of the Bauhaus, primary colors framed in black
there is most likely no other art has long assumed a life of its own
movement of the first half of the in art, fashion, advertising, and
twentieth century that has had popular culture. One focus of the
such an influence on our everyday publication is Mondrian’s develop-
lives as the De Stijl group around ment toward abstraction—from
Piet Mondrian and Theo van his early works in the circle of the
Doesburg. Mondrian, alongside Neo-Impressionist luminists to
Wassily Kandinsky and Kasimir his neoplasticist period. A second
Malevich one of abstract painting’s focus is De Stijl’s interdisciplinary
founding fathers, created strictly approach, which will be demon-
geometrical paintings that today strated based on period furniture,
are icons of modernism. Their char- clothing, and architectural drawacteristic
structure with fields of ings and models.
Mondrian De Stijl
Ed. Lenbachhaus, Munich, texts
by Helmut Friedel, Hans Janssen,
Franz-W. Kaiser, Matthias Mühling,
Felicia Rappe, Michael White, graphic
design by Thomas Mayfried
English / German
304 pp., 167 ills., 126 in color,
21.4 × 26 cm, clothbound
€ 39.80, $60.00, £35.00
ISBN 978-3-7757-3023-5
Available
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Exhibition schEdulE:
++ Kunstbau, lEnbachhaus, Munich,
april 16–auGust 15, 2011