COLLECTORS FINE w/ near fine dustjacket. Fine interior. 192 pp, with 69 plates, most in color.

Kandinsky: The Language of the Eye.

Paul Overy

Praeger

De Stijl ("The Style") was the name given to the work of the architects, designers and artists associated with the magazine of the same title edited by Theo van Doesburg and founded in Holland in 1917. De Stijl was international in its outlook: in contact with the Bauhaus and the Russian Constructivists, it helped create the ideology and formal language of modernism. This survey illuminates the works of Mondrian and the architecture and designs of Oud, Wils, Huszar and Rietveld, all of whom aimed to create an objective art concerned with universal values, expressed in primary geometric forms and pure colors. 157 illus., 17 in color.

De Stijl (Studio Vista/Dutton pictureback)

Littlehampton Book Services Ltd.

Recent exhibitions and publications on Josef Albers (1888–1976) have established this influential artist as a true Renaissance man of modernism--a painter, furniture designer, glass artist, writer, pedagogue and even album cover designer. Published on the occasion of the first major retrospective of Josef Albers in more than 20 years, and drawing on a wealth of information from the Albers archive, this volume consolidates this broad perspective, covering the full scope of Albers’ achievement. The artist’s career on both sides of the Atlantic is documented here, from his Weimar Bauhaus beginnings to his tenure as a teacher at Black Mountain College, to his years at Yale University and his considerable influence as a painter and theorist. The catalogue reproduces nearly 200 works, including 12 works in glass produced between 1921 and 1932; nearly 30 photographs and photocollages, many of which are previously unpublished; a selection of woodcuts and gouaches, and several items of furniture; the seven record sleeves Albers designed for Command Records (with their classic gatefold sleeves, which Albers helped to conceive); the paintings for which he is so well known; and a selection of theoretical texts. Also included is a rare text by Wassily Kandinsky, previously printed in a 1934 exhibition bulletin for a show of Alber’s woodcuts at the Galleria del Milione in Milan. This volume gives the most comprehensive account of Albers’ career to date.

Joseph Albers: A national touring exhibition from the South Bank Centre

Arts & Photography

josef-albers-paul-overy

History & Criticism

National Touring Exhibitions (Hayward Gallery)

The most complete survey of all furniture designs, both realized and unrealized, by the Dutch architect and designer Gerrit Rietveld. This survey covers 377 designs and documents each design with a description, information about the year of design and production, dimensions, material and present location, and is accompanied by a photograph or an original drawing.

The complete Rietveld furniture

Rietveld, Gerrit Thomas

Peter Voge (V?ge, Voege)

010 Uitgeverij

With Lenneke Büller, Frank den Oudsten, and Bertus Mulder  The Rietveld Schröder House incorporates a variety of perspectives to unite the client, architect, and structure in a rare complete document of a living landmark.  Newly restored and open to the public, the small semi-detached house on the outskirts of Utrecht was the prototype of a style that was one of the most reproduced and influential of any domestic building of the early modern period. It was constructed in 1925, the first complete building designed by Gerrit Rietveld, a Dutch designer who began his career as a craftsman and who later became identified with the De Stijl group.  Two remarkable series of photographs by Frank den Oudsten record the house as it was shortly before Mrs. Schröder's death and as it is today after restoration. These form a clear comparative record of the way in which the house was changed to fulfill the client's different needs. Den Oudsten's color photographs, supplemented with many black and white archival photographs dating from the early years of the house, show Rietveld's mastery of a fresh design syntax an open plan, interlocking planes and colors, built in furniture, sculpture like storage units that was thoroughly modern then and remains crisp and vital today.  Paul Overy analyzes the project in light of today's shifting attitudes toward modernism and in relation to the De Stijl group of artists and architects. Among the book's revelations is an interview with Mrs. Schröder who commissioned the house and continued to live in it until her death in 1985 at the age of 95. In this personal account she reveals that as a recent widow and mother of three children she wanted a house that would demonstrate how to live a new kind of life in the 20th century. Her house was a declaration that an independent modern woman intended to live informally and without ostentation, among objects that were at once functional and aesthetically significant.  The recent, careful restoration described here was carried out by Bertus Mulder, a friend of Mrs. Schröder and former employer of Rietveld. Paul Overy is a well known architectural critic and the author of De Stijl. He is Lecturer in History of Art and Design at the London Institute.

Rietveld-Schroder House

Lenneke Buller

Thoth