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Henry van de Velde : selected essays, 1889-1914 / edited by Katherine M. Kuenzli ; translated by Elizabeth Tucker.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Texts & documentsPublisher: Los Angeles : Getty Research Institute, [2022]Copyright date: ©2022Description: viii, 383 pages ; 26 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781606067949
Other title:
  • Selected essays, 1889-1914
Uniform titles:
  • Henry van de Velde (Getty Research Institute)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 709.03/4 23/eng/20220208
LOC classification:
  • N6447 .V375 2022
Contents:
Introduction: "Clearing the Terrain of Art": Henry van de Velde and an Art Theory for the Twentieth Century / Katherine M. Kuenzli -- Translator's Introduction / Elizabeth Tucker -- Henry van de Velde: Selected Essays, 1889-1914 -- Adrien-Joseph Heymans: A Study (1889) -- On the Peasant in Painting (1891) -- Georges Seurat (1891) -- Artistic Wallpapers (1893) -- Clearing the Terrain of Art (1894) -- Remarks on a Synthesis of Art (1895) -- Painting at the Third Exhibition of La Libre Esthétique (1896) -- The Colonial Exposition in Tervueren (1898) -- William Morris: Artisan and Socialist (1898) -- The Artistic Improvement of Women's Costume (1900) -- The Rebirth of the Applied Arts and the Social Movement (1901) -- Declaration of Principles (1902) -- Workshops for the Applied Arts (1902) -- On the Death of Otto Eckmann (1902) -- Giving Life to Matter as a Principle of Beauty (1903) -- Notes on a Journey to Greece (1905) -- On Good Taste (1905) -- The New Style (1906) -- Artists' Workshops (1906) -- The Line (1908) -- Folk Art (1909) -- Art and Industry (1910) -- Rational Beauty (1910) -- Traditional and Modern Christmas Tree Ornaments: The Lauscha -- Glassblowers at Work (1912) -- A Fountain by Hermann Obrist (1914) -- Counter-Theses (1914) -- Bibliography of Henry van de Velde's Publications, 1889-1917.
Summary: "This volume is the first English-language collection of writings by Henry van de Velde, one of the most influential designers and theorists of the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

"Henry van de Velde: writings published 1889-1917": pages 367-370.

Introduction: "Clearing the Terrain of Art": Henry van de Velde and an Art Theory for the Twentieth Century / Katherine M. Kuenzli -- Translator's Introduction / Elizabeth Tucker -- Henry van de Velde: Selected Essays, 1889-1914 -- Adrien-Joseph Heymans: A Study (1889) -- On the Peasant in Painting (1891) -- Georges Seurat (1891) -- Artistic Wallpapers (1893) -- Clearing the Terrain of Art (1894) -- Remarks on a Synthesis of Art (1895) -- Painting at the Third Exhibition of La Libre Esthétique (1896) -- The Colonial Exposition in Tervueren (1898) -- William Morris: Artisan and Socialist (1898) -- The Artistic Improvement of Women's Costume (1900) -- The Rebirth of the Applied Arts and the Social Movement (1901) -- Declaration of Principles (1902) -- Workshops for the Applied Arts (1902) -- On the Death of Otto Eckmann (1902) -- Giving Life to Matter as a Principle of Beauty (1903) -- Notes on a Journey to Greece (1905) -- On Good Taste (1905) -- The New Style (1906) -- Artists' Workshops (1906) -- The Line (1908) -- Folk Art (1909) -- Art and Industry (1910) -- Rational Beauty (1910) -- Traditional and Modern Christmas Tree Ornaments: The Lauscha -- Glassblowers at Work (1912) -- A Fountain by Hermann Obrist (1914) -- Counter-Theses (1914) -- Bibliography of Henry van de Velde's Publications, 1889-1917.

"This volume is the first English-language collection of writings by Henry van de Velde, one of the most influential designers and theorists of the twentieth century"-- Provided by publisher.

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