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

art historian Art history is the study of aesthetic objects and visual expression in historical and stylistic context. Traditionally, the discipline of art history emphasized painting, drawing, sculpture, architecture, ceramics and decorative arts; yet today ...

and critic who was an authority on ''

De Stijl ''De Stijl'' (; ), Dutch for "The Style", also known as Neoplasticism, was a Dutch art movement founded in 1917 in Leiden. De Stijl consisted of artists and architects. In a more narrow sense, the term ''De Stijl'' is used to refer to a body o ...

''.

Selected publications

* ''Edouard Manet'', 1967 * ''De Stijl'', 1969 * ''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