TheDeStijlprotagonist’selucidationofthebasicsofneoplasticismPainter,writer,architect,typographer,arttheoristandleaderoftheDeStijlmovement,TheovanDoesburg(1883-1931)wasoneofthegreatmodernistpolymaths,andinthisvolumeoftheBauhausb羹cher,heattemptstomakeelementaryconceptsinthevisualartsgenerallycomprehensibleforabroadaudience.VanDoesburg’sbookaddressesthe“modernartist“ofhisday,whohadtodealwithbothshiftingsocialparadigmsandachangingunderstandingofartandarttheory.Unifyingarangeofdisciplines,vanDoesburgdescribestheoryasanecessaryconsequenceofcreativepractice:artists,hesays,“donotwriteaboutartbutfromwithinart.“PrinciplesofNeo-PlasticArtisarevolutionarysynthesisofpracticeandtheory.
