De Stijl and Dutch modernism

De Stijl and Dutch modernismDe Stijl was the title of a magazine founded in the Netherlands in 1917 and is now used to identify the abstract art and functional architecture of its major contributors: Mondrian, Van Doesburg, Van der Leck, Oud, Wils and Rietveld. This book is the first to emphasize the local context of De Stijl and explore its relationship to the distinctive character of Dutch modernism. Examines the connection between debates concerning abstraction in painting

so there were no half-curious

the 23 contributors deftly combine examples of the popular cultural icon and personal reflections to provide an analysis that is at once approachable but also filled with the intellectual rigour of academic critique

The book examines the power of nationalism to solder nation-states back together rather than break them apart

textual and theatrical conventions

variety and change

This study of competing representations of the Virgin Mary examines how Victorian anxieties about religious and gender identities intersected to create public controversies that

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brings together interviews with Kren

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This study compares the position of Catholic minorities in England and the Dutch Republic

tracing changes in the significance of visual and verbal literacy in each nation

embattled multiculture