The Classic Mondrian in Neo-Calvinist View

Joseph Masheck

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Author
Joseph Masheck
Publish Date
2018-12-21
Subtitle
The Watson Gordon Lecture 2017
Book Type
Hardcover
Number of Pages
48
Publisher Name
National Galleries of Scotland
ISBN-10
1911054287
ISBN-13
9781911054283
citemno
254212
SKU
9781911054283

Description

In this book, Joseph Masheck re-examines the spiritual in Mondrian's art and proposes a parallel between the equilibrium found in his paintings and his writings on theological justification. The artist's Calvinist Christianity is considered in respect to the balanced, asymmetrical works of his 'classic' phase of the 1920s and 1930s, and potential parallels with the writings of an important Dutch theologian of the Neo-Calvinist movement are explored. Finally, the author follows Mondrian's classic phase into the 1930s and beyond, in this extraordinary and inspiring reassessment of one of the fathers of abstract art.