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Acknowledgments
Introduction: “Clearing the Terrain of Art”: Henry van de Velde and an Art Theory for the Twentieth Century
Translator’s Introduction Henry van de Velde in Translation
HENRY VAN DE VELDE: SELECTED ESSAYS, 1889–1914
1. Adrien-JosephHeymans: A Study (1889)
2. On the Peasant in Painting (1891)
3. Georges Seurat (1891)
4. Artistic Wallpapers (1893)
5. Clearing the Terrain of Art (1894)
6. Remarks on a Synthesis of Art (1895)
7. Painting at the Third Exhibition of La Libre Esthétique (1896)
8. The Colonial Exposition in Tervueren (1898)
9. William Morris: Artisan and Socialist (1898)
10. The Artistic Improvement of Women’s Costume (1900)
11. The Rebirth of the Applied Arts and the Social Movement (1901)
12. Declaration of Principles (1902)
13. Workshops for the Applied Arts (1902)
14. On the Death of Otto Eckmann (1902)
15. Giving Life to Matter as a Principle of Beauty (1903)
16. Notes on a Journey to Greece (1905)
17. On Good Taste (1905)
18. The New Style (1906)
19. Artists’ Workshops (1906)
20. The Line (1908)
21. Folk Art (1909)
22. Art and Industry (1910)
23. Rational Beauty (1910)
24. Traditional and Modern Christmas Tree Ornaments: The Lauscha Glassblowers at Work (1912)
25. A Fountain by Hermann Obrist (1914)
26. Counter-Theses(1914)
Henry van de Velde: Writings Published 1889–1917
Biographical Notes on the Contributors
Index
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