"This volume is the first English-language collection of writings by Henry van de Velde, one of the most influential designers and theorists of the twentieth century."-- Provided by publisher.
Introduction: "Clearing the Terrain of Art": Henry van de Velde and an Art Theory for the Twentieth Century / Katherine M. Kuenzli -- Translator's Introduction / Elizabeth Tucker -- Henry van de Velde: Selected Essays, 1889-1914 -- Adrien-Joseph Heymans: A Study (1889) -- On the Peasant in Painting (1891) -- Georges Seurat (1891) -- Artistic Wallpapers (1893) -- Clearing the Terrain of Art (1894) -- Remarks on a Synthesis of Art (1895) -- Painting at the Third Exhibition of La Libre Esthétique (1896) -- The Colonial Exposition in Tervueren (1898) -- William Morris: Artisan and Socialist (1898) -- The Artistic Improvement of Women's Costume (1900) -- The Rebirth of the Applied Arts and the Social Movement (1901) -- Declaration of Principles (1902) -- Workshops for the Applied Arts (1902) -- On the Death of Otto Eckmann (1902) -- Giving Life to Matter as a Principle of Beauty (1903) -- Notes on a Journey to Greece (1905) -- On Good Taste (1905) -- The New Style (1906) -- Artists' Workshops (1906) -- The Line (1908) -- Folk Art (1909) -- Art and Industry (1910) -- Rational Beauty (1910) -- Traditional and Modern Christmas Tree Ornaments: The Lauscha -- Glassblowers at Work (1912) -- A Fountain by Hermann Obrist (1914) -- Counter-Theses (1914) -- Bibliography of Henry van de Velde's Publications, 1889-1917.