History & The Arts
Modernist architecture: Roots (1920-1929)
...De Stijl movement (1917-1931), a collection of Dutch artists and architects, wanted to liberate the arts from the shackles of tradition. Other movements such as Art Nouveau (1893-1914) and Expressionism (1912-1923) also experimented with bold, new forms and ideas, and in Russia the Constructivists (1920-1932) emphasised honesty of materials and functional simplicity in...