'The Double Line of Miss//Moss'
Howarth, Lucy (2017) 'The Double Line of Miss//Moss'. In: Marlow Moss: A Forgotten Maverick. Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH, Zürich / Berlin, pp. 93-100. ISBN 9783775743006
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‘… a geometrical figure – sometimes broken, sometimes cut, sometimes divided, sometimes sub-divided …’
Marlow Moss made her first neoplasticist painting in 1929, the year she met Piet Mondrian, and her first genuine contribution to the development of the De Stijl language, the double line, a year on from that. Two lines, running parallel; this innovation, and the disturbance it caused, announced Moss to the Parisian avant-garde.
In this text I outline the significance of Moss's 'double line' – and explore what it now means in terms of her gender postion and historical legacy.
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