Piet Mondrian in the USA: The Artist's Life and Work (Temporis) - Hardcover

Rembert, Virginia Pitts

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1859957188 ISBN 13: 9781859957189

Publisher: Parkstone Press, 2002

Synopsis

This exceptional book on Mondrian's work concentrates on the artist's American period. By birth a Dutchman, Piet Mondrian arrived in New York in September 1940. He died there four years later.

A pioneer of abstract art, he was -- like Wassily Kandinsky and Kasimir Malevich -- one of those Western painters remarkable as much for the work he produced as for his writings on the theory of art. Mondrian's celebrity was affirmed immediately after his death, when the first retrospective exhibition of his works given by the New York Museum of Modern Art in 1945 afforded him both global recognition and a place in history.

In this book, containing more than 400 reproductions, Mondrian's oeuvre finds new life and a new opportunity, as befits a master whom some would call the artist of his century.

Virginia Pitts Rembert, through the skill of being able to pass on her own research and expertise, reveals Mondrian's secret strengths both as an artist and as an innovator.

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About the Author:

rembert is herself one of the world's experts in european and us painting and architecture of the 20th century.

About this edition

• Publisher: Parkstone Press
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1859957188
• ISBN 13: 9781859957189
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336