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Dutch painter Piet Mondrian died in New York City in 1944, but his work and legacy have been far from static since then. From market pressures to personal relationships and scholarly agendas, posthumous factors have repeatedly transformed our understanding of his oeuvre. In The Afterlife of Piet Mondrian , Nancy J. Troy explores the controversial circumstances under which our conception of the artist's work has been shaped since his death, an account that describes money-driven interventions and personal and professional rivalries in forthright detail. Troy reveals how collectors, curators, scholars, dealers and the painter's heirs all played roles in fashioning Mondrian's legacy, each with a different reason for seeing the artist through a particular lens. She shows that our appreciation of his work is influenced by how it has been conserved, copied, displayed, and publicized, and she looks at the popular appeal of Mondrian's instantly recognizable style in fashion, graphic design, and a vast array of consumer commodities. Ultimately, Troy argues that we miss the evolving significance of Mondrian's work if we examine it without regard for the interplay of canonical art and popular culture. A fascinating investigation into Mondrian's afterlife, this book casts new light on how every artist's legacy is constructed as it circulates through the art world and becomes assimilated into the larger realm of visual experience.
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In this fascinating study of how the legacy of an artist is shaped, Troy (Stanford Univ.) explores the transformation of the critical and popular perception of artist Piet Mondrian after his death in 1944. Mondrian--best-known for paintings consisting of rectangular squares and a limited palette of red, yellow, blue, black, and white--was born in the Netherlands in 1872 but spent most of his artistic career in Paris. In 1940, he settled in New York, where the impact of that city presumably affected his output, with works such as Broadway Boogie-Woogie (1942-43) as an example. Troy describes how Mondrian's legacy was shaped with different underlying reasons by art institutions, scholars, the artist's heirs, and others. One chapter, "Mondrian and Money," provides an interesting history of the phenomenal price paid for one of the artist's works. The chapter "The Mondrian Brand" analyzes the ubiquity of the artist's imagery in various cultural contexts, particularly fashion. Among the author's related publications is Couture Culture: A Study in Modern Art and Fashion (MIT, 2003). This book is richly illustrated and includes extensive notes. --Edward H. Teague, University of Oregon
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Acknowledgments | p. vii |
Note to the Reader | p. xi |
Introduction | p. 1 |
1 Mondrian and Money | |
Victory Boogie Woogie | p. 9 |
2 (Un)Becoming Art | |
Mondrian's Furniture and the Walls of His New York Studio | p. 71 |
3 Mondrian's Legacy in New York | p. 127 |
4 The Mondrian Brand | p. 169 |
Postscript | p. 229 |
Notes | p. 237 |
Index | p. 271 |
Plates follow page | p. 235 |