TY  - BOOK
AU  - Deicher, Susanne 
TI  - Mondrian 
SN  - 9783836553308
U1  - ARTS 
PY  - 2015///
CY  - Germany
PB  - Taschen GmbH
KW  - Art
KW  - Art history
KW  - Art monograph
KW  - Design
KW  - Expressionism
KW  - Painting
KW  - Piet Mondrian
KW  - Style
N1  - 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
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