During the 1880s, five ambitious artists, Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Emile Bernard, and Charles Angrand, ventured to the suburbs northwest of Paris to paint along the river Seine. Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: Along the Seine is the first publication to investigate these artists’ motivations for leaving the city to paint the suburbs and the profound influence that Asnières, clichy, and the surrounding areas had upon their revolutionary approaches to color and brushstrok...

The celebrated Dutch architect and urban planner Cornelis van Eesteren is most famous for his work on the Amsterdam General Extension Plan (AUP), dating from 1934 and implemented after the Second World War, and for his role as the chairman of the International Congress for Modern Architecture (CIAM) from 1930 to 1947. He was a pioneer, and a highly influential figure of modernist urbanism. During his less known 'coming-of-age' years in the 1920s, an exceptionally exciting period in the cultur...