Character is Fate : Piet Mondrian's horoscope / Willem de Rooij ; editors : Defne Ayas, Amira Gad, Willem de Rooij ; contributors : Wietse Coppes, Kocku von Stuckrad.
Title
Character is Fate : Piet Mondrian's horoscope / Willem de Rooij ; editors : Defne Ayas, Amira Gad, Willem de Rooij ; contributors : Wietse Coppes, Kocku von Stuckrad.
Publication
[Rotterdam] : Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, [2015]
In 1911, shortly before Piet Mondrian moved from Amsterdam to Paris, he had his horoscope chart drawn and interpreted by astrologer Adriaan van de Vijsel. Mondrian would carry the documents with him until his death in New York in 1944. The Netherlands Institute for Art History (RKD) in The Hague acquired the horoscope in 2012. Artist Willem de Rooij's personal interest in astrology inspired the idea to make Mondrian's horoscope and the associated readings accessible to a wider audience. This volume comprises its facsimile, transcription, and English translation, with a biographical sketch by Wietse Coppes and observations about the horoscope by Kocku von Stuckrad.
"This book is published with the aim of making Adriaan van de Vijsel's horoscope readings for Piet Mondrian accessible to an English-speaking audience ... In his text 'I'm the Same Just a Bit More Balanced. If I Don't Deceive Myself,' Wieste Coppes (curator, RKD, the Netherlands) describes Mondrian's life at the time the horoscopes were written. Kocku von Stuckrad ... places Van de Vijsel's readings in a broader historical contedxt in his text 'Adrian van de Vijsel's Readings of Pidet Mondrian's Horoscope : Some Observations." -- page [7].
Includes a transcript van de Vijsel's horoscope readings.
Bibliography (note)
Includes bibliographical references.
Language (note)
Text in English and Dutch.
Processing Action (note)
committed to retain
Contents
Character is fate -- Willem de Rooij -- "I'm the same just a bit more balanced, if I don't deceive myself" : a biographical sketch of Piet Mondrian in the period 1909-12, based on letters sent to Aletta de Iongh / Wietse Coppes -- Adriaan van de Vijsel's reading of Piet Mondrian's horoscope : some observations / Kocku von Stuckrad -- Transcript of Piet Mondrian's horoscope (summary version) -- Transcript of Piet Mondrian's horoscope (extended version) -- Manuscript : Piet Mondrian's horoscope (summary version) -- Manuscript : Piet Mondrian's horoscope (extended version).