《THE STORY OF DE STIJI(MONDRIAN TO VANDOESBURG)》: In The Story of De Stijl, which draws extensively on original sources, the authors challenge the understanding of De Stijl as a coherent movement, presenting a series of 'scenes' focussed on crucial turning-points in the history of De Stijl and bringing to the foreground the key relationships and interactions which brought De Stijl to life.

Foreword

Introduction

How most of the original protagonists meet and form De Stijl

01 The famous architect and the headstrong artist

 The design of the 'art room' at Groot Haesebroeck estate

02 The downfall of the village

 Mondrian, Laren and the search for an abstract life

03 Anew monumentality

 Van Doesburg and Huszar at the Kroller-Muller collection in The Hague

04 'Dascolorierte Haus'

 The house for notary J. de Lange in Alkmaar

05 Of different minds

 The Hollandsche Kunstenaarskring exhibition of 1917

06 By bike and by train

 An art movement in the new urban environment called the Randstad

07 Troubled waters

 Houseboat 'De Stijl'

08 The living proof

 Theories and arguments concerning the form of the new art

 Entr'acte Modernity in fashion

  How the successful collaborations and stumbling-blocks give shape to De Stijl

09 Radical art and radical politics

  The colour design for the house of Hart de Ligt in Katwijk aan Zee

10 The ethics of straight lines

  The Huszar-Zwart debate at the Haagsche Kunstkring

11 A promising scheme

  The enthusiastic response to the Papaverhof houses in The Hague

12 Housing and collectivity

  Oud and Van Doesburg and their almost invisible solutions

  for the Spangen apartment blocks in Rotterdam

13 The dynamics of progress

  The Section d'Or exhibition, Theo van Doesburg and Jan Toorop

14 Dadaand DeStijl

  An artist writes about modern life

15 'I am no house painter. I take these things very seriously...'

  The collaboration between Oud and Van Doesburg on the housing blocks for Spangen II

16 For readers on the move

  A new format for a modern magazine

17 The birth of modern city planning

  Van Eesteren meets Van Doesburg in Weimar

18 The Dada Tour of Holland

 Everything was dada, except the prices

19 A Far Flung Corner of a World City

 The businesslike but very Dutch solutions to the architecture in the Tusschendijken district

20 'The practical execution of the Stijl idea'

 The Rosenberg exhibition

21 How do you want to live?

 An emancipated woman's views on child rearing,

 and the new architecture of the Rietveld-Schroder House

 Entr'acte Stylishly dressed

 How the problems of 1925 turn De Stijl into a permanently disintegrating movement

22 Counter-compositions

 The role of dance and women in modern life

23 The applied arts swindle

 The Exposition internationale des Arts decoratifs et industriels modernes, Paris, 1925

24 'The cold kills the microbes'

 The City of Circulation

25 A paintingin three dimensions

 The 'Salle des Fleurs' fora lavish villa in the south of France

26 'Not as sectarian as (the late!) "De Stijl".'

 Cesar Domela, Arthur Lehning, Piet Mondrian and i10

27 Advertising as Fine Art

 Vilmos Huszar and the Miss Blanche cigarette advertising campaign

28 An Hour of Town Planning with Van Eesteren

 New approaches to the rationalisation of town planning

29 A building of movement

 The design for the Aubette centre in Strasbourg

30 'Down with conservatism'

 The ClAM meeting at La Sarraz with Rietveld and Berlage

31 The tubular chair

 An exhibition and a copyright issue

32 'Dwelling Fords'?

 A solution to the re-housing problem for rock-bottom incomes

33 Mondrianin his studio

 'A pure world (your work) has shown us and thus have we become aware of it'

 Entr'acte Right down to the glass cloths ...

34 'A daily joy'

 The Bruynzeel kitchen and the 'standardisation' of women's work

35 Backtothe Future

 The Dutch contribution at the New York World's Fair of 1939

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