Description: PLASTIC ART AND PURE PLASTIC ART by Piet Mondrian 1945 Letterpress First Edition with Design and Typography by Paul Rand 64 pages and many black ane white photos and 2 color plates Piet Mondrian: PLASTIC ART AND PURE PLASTIC ART [1937 and Other Essays 1941 - 1943]. New York: Wittenborn and Company, 1945. First edition. Slim quarto. Letterpress printed thick wrappers. 64 pp. 2 color plates. Black and white images. Wrappers toned and soiledwith insect etching to lower edge [see scan]. Textblock bottom edge bruised. Spotting throughout textblock and plates. Pages 30-31 shadowed from laid-in clipping. Cover design and typography by Paul Rand. A decent copy of this fragile, first edition. A nearly very good copy. 7.5 x 10 book, with 64 pages and many black ane white photos and 2 color plates; illustrations include full page photo of Mondrian at work in 1943. From the series, "The Documents of Modern Art", edited by Robert Motherwell. In an early issue of GRAPHIS, Max Bill reviewed Motherwell's Documents of Modern Art series by stating it was the most important series of modern art documents since Gropius and Moholy-Nagy published the Bauhuasbuchers. Covers and interior design/typography by Paul Rand. An excellent meeting of two of the giants of 20th Century modernism: remember: Form follows function! “[Mondrian’s] compositions” have had such a profound effect not only on art, but on our culture that we can’t even “see” them anymore. Mondrian summed up his paintings best when he said, "Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships between them than by the concrete subject of the picture.” Dutch pioneer of abstract art Piet Mondrian (1872 – 1944) coined the term Neo-Plasticism to describe his rigorously geometric abstract paintings. Mondrian’s first one-man exhibition opened at the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, in 1909. He was influenced by Cubism — to the point of abstraction — during his residency in Paris from 1912 to 1914. Mondrian returned to Holland in 1914 and evolved a more simplified abstract style which he called Neo-Plasticism, restricted to the three primary colours and to a grid of black vertical and horizontal lines on a white ground; He associated with Theo van Doesburg in the de Stijl movement between 1917 to 1925. back in Paris from 1919 to 1938 he he joined the group Abstraction-Création in 1931. Mondrian emigrated to New York in 1940 where he continued to develop a more colorful style, with colored lines and syncopated rhythms. “In past times when one lived in contact with nature, abstraction was easy; it was done unconsciously. Now in our denaturalized age abstraction becomes an effort.” Please visit my Ebay store for an excellent and ever-changing selection of rare and out-of-print design books and periodicals covering all aspects of 20th-century visual culture. I offer shipping discounts for multiple purchases. Please contact me for details. Payment due within 3 days of purchase.
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