Sophie Taeuber-Arp and the Avant-Garde : A Biography / Roswitha Mair.

Author/Creator:

Mair, Roswitha, author., Author,

Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2020]

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource (288 pages) : 15 color plates, 38 halftones

Subjects:

Women artists -- Switzerland -- Biography.

Language:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
text file PDF

Summary:

Sophie Taeuber-Arp was a quiet innovator whose fame has too often been yoked to that of her husband, Jean Arp. Over time, however, she has slowly come to be seen as one of the foremost abstract artists and designers of the twentieth century. The Swiss-born Taeuber-Arp had a front row seat to the first wave of Dadaism and was, along with Mondrian and Malevich, a pioneer of Constructivism. Her singular artwork incorporated painting, sculpture, dance, fiber arts, and architecture, as hers was one of the first oeuvres to successfully bridge the divide between fine and functional art. Now Roswitha Mair has brought us the first biography of this unique polymath, illuminating not just Tauber-Arp's own life and work, but also the various milieux and movements in which she traveled. No fan of the Dadaists and their legacy will want to miss this first English-language translation.

Contents:

Frontmatter
CONTENTS
Preface
1: 1889- 1908
2: 1908- 1914
3: 1914- 1919
4: 1919- 1929
5: 1929- 1933
6: 1933- 1940
7: 1940- 1943
Epilogue
Acknowledgments
Notes

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Sep 2020)

Contributor:

Searls, Damion
De Gruyter.

Contained In:

De Gruyter University Press Library.

ISBN:

9780226311357

Publisher Number:

10.7208/9780226311357 doi

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.

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