Paul Vivian Overy (14 February 1940 – 7 August 2008) was a British

art historian Art history is the study of artistic works made throughout human history. Among other topics, it studies art’s formal qualities, its impact on societies and cultures, and how artistic styles have changed throughout history. Traditionally, the ...

and critic who was an authority on ''

De Stijl De Stijl (, ; 'The Style') was a Dutch art movement founded in 1917 by a group of artists and architects based in Leiden (Theo van Doesburg, Jacobus Oud, J.J.P. Oud), Voorburg (Vilmos Huszár, Jan Wils) and Laren, North Holland, Laren (Piet Mo ...

''.

Selected publications

* ''Edouard Manet'', 1967 * ''De Stijl'', 1969 - Studio Vista * ''De Stijl'', 1991 - Thames & Hudson * ''Kandinsky: The Language of the Eye'', 1969 * ''The Rietveld Schröder House'', 1988 (co-author) * ''The Complete Furniture of Gerrit Rietveld'', 1993 (co-author) * ''Light, Air and Openness, Modern Architecture Between the Wars'', 2008.

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1940 births 2008 deaths People from Dorchester, Dorset English art critics English art historians {{England-academic-bio-stub