Theo van Doesburg: Principles of Neo-Plastic Art - Bauhausbücher 6

$40.00 at Philadelphia Museum of Art.

The De Stijl protagonist’s elucidation of the basics of neoplasticism Painter, writer, architect, typographer, art theorist and leader of the De Stijl movement, Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931) was one of the great modernist polymaths, and in this volume of the Bauhausbücher, he attempts to make elementary concepts in the visual arts generally comprehensible for a broad audience. Van Doesburg’s book addresses the “modern artist” of his day, who had to deal with both shifting social paradigms and a changing…