Architect, theorist, dadaist-van Doesburg describes the circumstances of being an artist in the increasingly capitalistic twentieth century.
Theo van Doesburg was a jack of all trades: painter, writer, architect, typographer, and art theorist. In this volume of the Bauhausbücher, he attempts to make elementary concepts in the visual arts generally comprehensible. He was addressing the &lmodern artist&r of his day, who had to deal with both shifting social paradigms and a changing understanding of art and art theory. Van Doesburg describes theory as a necessary consequence of creative practice. Artists, he says, &ldo not write about art but from within art.&r
