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The extraordinary and surprising life of Piet Mondrian, whose unprecedented geometric art revolutionized modern painting, architecture, graphic art, fashion design, and more-from acclaimed cultural historian Nicholas Fox Weber In the early 1920s, surrounded by the roaring streets of avant-garde Paris, Piet Mondrian began creating what would become some of the most recognizable abstract paintings of the 20th century. With rectangles of primary colors against a dazzling white background, this was geometric abstraction in its purest form. These revolutionary compositions exhilarated, intoxicated, confused, and enraged the international public - and changed the course of modern art forever. Now, for the first time, Mondrian emerges alongside his thrilling art.
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Nicholas Fox Weber is a cultural historian. He is the? ExecutiveDirector of the Josef and Anni Albers? Foundation and has writtenextensively about each? artist. He has curated many major exhibitionsand? retrospectives of their work.Weber is a graduate of Columbia College (B.A., major in Art History) and Yale University (M.A., Art History; Fellowship in American Art) .He is the author of fourteen books including The Bauhaus Group,Le Corbusier, The Clarks of Cooperstown, Balthus A Biography,Patron Saints, The Art of Babar, and The Drawings of Josef Albers.Weber is at work on a full-scale biography of Piet Mondrian to bepublished by Alfred A. Knopf.Photograph by Marion EttlingerWebsite: http://www.nicholasfoxweber.com/
