Co-authored by Kees Broos / Paul Hefting. Text, English.
Contents
Decorative art and rationalism
Type, line and form
New typography and phtomontage
Functionalism and decoration
Depression, emigration and occupation
Freestyle images and austere design
Formal arrangement and variation
Free approach vs.grid
The recent past
Biographeis and selected bibliography
Jan Toorop
Jan van Krimpen
Theo van Doesburg
Piet Zwart
Hendrik Werkman
Willem Sandberg
Wim Crouwel
Vilmos Huszár
H. P. Berlage
H. Th. Wijdeveld
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