The Ideal as Art. De Stijl 1917-1931

Laminated paper covered blue boards with white lettering. Some creasing and soiling to inner margins of head of first 40-odd pages with a small closed tear to head of pages 39-40. Slightly scuffed to corners. In near fine dust jacket.Translated from the German by Hugh Beyer. *** Hans Arp, Theo van Doesburg, Piet Mondrian, Gerrit Rietveld and others were for a decade and a half associated with a Modernist art movement called De Stijl, named after the Dutch art magazine of that same name. This publication is a beautifully illustrated in-depth study of that movement and the work of the individual artists involved.