Henry van de Velde : selected essays, 1889-1914 /

"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"--

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Velde, Henry van de, 1863-1957 (Author)
Other Authors: Kuenzli, Katherine M. (Katherine Marie), 1972- (Editor), Tucker, Elizabeth, 1977- (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: Los Angeles, California : Getty Research Institute, [2022]
Series:Texts & documents.
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Table of 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.