Table of Contents

Contents: Foreword; Introduction; I - 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 A new monumentality: Van Doesburg and Huszar at the Kroeller-Muller collection in The Hague; 04 'Das colorierte Haus': The house for solicitor J. de Lange of 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; II - 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 Bart 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 and the marriage of Theo van Doesburg and Lena Milius; 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, Theo van Doesburg and Jan Toorop exhibition; 14 Dada and De Stijl: 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-Schroeder House; Entr'acte: Stylishly dressed; III - 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 painting in three dimensions: The 'Salle des fleurs' for a 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 rationalization of town planning; 29 A building of movement: The design for the Aubette centre in Strasbourg; 30 'Down with conservatism': The CIAM 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 Mondrian in 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; Sources.

About the Author

Hans Janssen is Curator of Modern Art at the Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands. He has published many books on Modernist painting, especially on Mondrian. Michael White is a senior lecturer in History of Art working chiefly on the interwar avant-gardes: Constructivism, Dada and Surrealism. His previous publications include De Stijl and Dutch Modernism (2003 and 2009) and he is currently preparing a monograph on Mondrian.