Author : Gladys C. Fabre
Publisher : Tate
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Book Synopsis Van Doesburg & the International Avant-Garde by : Gladys C. Fabre
Download or read book Van Doesburg & the International Avant-Garde written by Gladys C. Fabre and published by Tate. This book was released on 2009 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 elemental, abstract vocabulary in both Painting and Architecture. Here, revealed for the first time, is the true extent of his involvement with Dada and Constructivist artists' groups spread across the whole of Europe, as far as Russia and beyond, and the breadth of his creative practice in fields as diverse as Film, Typography, Graphic Design and Music. A man of multiple talents and identities, he was inspired by the catastrophe of the First World War to attempt nothing less than the reshaping of culture in its entirety and the construction of a new world --