Manchester University Press

De Stijl and Dutch modernism

By Michael White

DESCRIPTION

De Stijl was the title of a magazine founded in the Netherlands in 1917

and is now used to identify the abstract art and functional architecture
of its major contributors: Mondrian, Van Doesburg, Van der Leck,
Oud, Wils and Rietveld. This book is the first to emphasize the local
context of De Stijl and explore its relationship to the distinctive
character of Dutch modernism. Examines the connection between
debates concerning abstraction in painting and spatiality in
architecture and contemporary developments in the fields of urban
planning, advertising, interior design and exhibition design. Describes
the interaction between the world of mass culture and the fine arts.

AUTHOR/EDITOR BIOGRAPHY
Michael White is Lecturer in History of Art at the University of York

Paperback, £16.99
July 2003
978-0-7190-6162-2
196 Pages

TABLE OF CONTENTS
List of plates
List of figures
List of abbreviations
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction: Who's afraid of red, yellow and
blue
1. Abstraction and utopia
2. The monumental image of the city
3. Advertising as fine art
4. Structures of interior design
5. Exhibiting style
Bibliography

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