PRINCIPLES OF NEO

Theo van Doesburg was a jack of all trades: painter, writer, architect, typographer, and art theorist. In this volume of the Bauhaus bucher, he attempts to make elementary concepts in the visual arts generally comprehensible. He was addressing the modern artist of his day, who had to deal with both shifting social paradigms and a changing understanding of art and art theory. Van Doesburg descri bes theory as a necessary consequence of creative practice. Artists, he says, do not write about art but from within art.