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Piet Mondrian - A Life (Hardcover)
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Piet Mondrian - A Life (Hardcover)
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Piet Mondrian: A Life is the first dedicated biography of Piet
Mondrian to be published in English. Hans Janssen’s remarkable
book provides a long overdue, in-depth and compelling account of
the life of perhaps the most influential abstract artist of the
20th century. Janssen, former chief curator at the Kunstmuseum Den
Haag – home to the world’s largest collection of Mondrian works
– draws on his own research and that of a cohort of distinguished
scholars, as well as previously unknown letters, writings and
archival materials, to reveal unexpected new insights into the
artist’s life and the circles in which he moved. From his student
years in Amsterdam to his life in Paris in the years after the
First World War, to his time in London and New York from 1938 until
his death, Mondrian is here presented as someone in constant
interaction with the world around him. Far from the lonely,
isolated figure he is often portrayed as, immersing himself in the
purity of abstraction to mask his feelings, Mondrian is revealed as
an artist reacting to the emergence of modernity and who took the
lead in shaping art for the world in which we now live. Translated
into English on the 150th anniversary year of the artist’s birth,
Piet Mondrian: A Life is a vital contribution to the scholarship on
Mondrian as well as the wider history of the development of
abstract art.
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