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Mondrian Susanne Deicher

Mondrian By Susanne Deicher

Mondrian by Susanne Deicher


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Summary

Less was more for Piet Mondrian. With his strictly limited pictorial elements-the colors red, yellow, and blue, black lines, white space-he sought a 'universal harmony' and created a whole new domain of avant-garde abstraction. This essential guide presents Mondrian's pioneering oeuvre, as well as his works of fashion and design, from White...

Mondrian Summary

Mondrian by Susanne Deicher

A key figure in the international avant-garde, Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was at once an extraordinary painter and leading art theoretician whose influence resonates to this day. Coining the term Neo-plasticism, he pursued a style of painting composed only of primary colors against a grid of black vertical and horizontal lines and a white base background.

Mondrian's vision was that this essential painting would help to achieve a society in which art as such has no place, but rather exists for the total realization of beauty. With stints in Amsterdam, Paris, London, and New York, Mondrian drew upon the modern metropolis and modern music, especially jazz, as points of inspiration. In 1917, he cofounded De Stijl, originally a publication, and subsequently a circle of practitioners, committed to a strictly geometrical art of horizontals and verticals.

With key works and succinct texts, this introductory book presents Mondrian's distinctive and pioneering oeuvre, an abiding inspiration for fashion, art, architecture, and design, from White Stripes album covers to Yves Saint Laurent dresses.

2016 (c) US Mondrian/Holtzman Trust

About the series

Born back in 1985, the Basic Art Series has evolved into the best-selling art book collection ever published. Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Art series features:

a detailed chronological summary of the life and oeuvre of the artist, covering his or her cultural and historical importance

a concise biography

approximately 100 illustrations with explanatory captions

About Susanne Deicher

Susanne Deicher studied in Goettingen and Berlin, where she gained her doctorate in 1993 with a thesis on Piet Mondrian. Since 1997 she has been professor of History of Art and Culture, Aesthetics, and Architectural and Design Theory at the University of Wismar.

Additional information

NGR9783836553308
9783836553308
3836553309
Mondrian by Susanne Deicher
New
Hardback
Taschen GmbH
20230105
96
N/A
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