PRINCIPLES OF NEO-PLASTIC ART
Theo van Doesburg
Theo van Doesburg: PRINCIPLES OF NEO-PLASTIC ART. Greenwich, CT: New York Graphic Society, 1966. First American edition [English translation of Grundbegriffe Der Neuen Gestaltenden Kunst, Bauhausbucher 6 from 1925]. Quarto. Red cloth stamped in black. Printed dust jacket. 74 pp. 31 black and white plates. 2 color plates tipped in. Endpapers spotted. Dust jacket lightly soiled and spotted, otherwise a very good or better copy.
7.25 x 10.25 hardcover book with 74 pages and 31 black and white plates and 2 tipped-in color plates. Introduction by Hans M. Wingler and a postscript by H.L.C. Jaffé. Translated from the German by Janet Seligman.
The term De Stijl (The Style) is used to refer to a body of work created by a group of Dutch artists, from 1917 to 1931. De Stijl is also the name of a journal which was published by the painter and critic Theo van Doesburg, propagating the group's theories . . . Proponents of De Stijl sought to express a new utopian ideal of spiritual harmony and order. They advocated pure abstraction and universality by a reduction to the essentials of form and colour -- they simplified visual compositions to the vertical and horizontal directions, and used only primary colors along with black and white.