Sophie Taeuber-Arp and the avant-garde : a biography / Roswitha Mair ; translated by Damion Searls.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mair, Roswitha, author.

Contributor:

Searls, Damion, translator.

Standardized Title:

Handwerk und Avantgarde. English

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Taeuber-Arp, Sophie, 1889-1943.

Taeuber-Arp, Sophie.

Women artists--Switzerland--Biography.

Women artists.

Switzerland.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 222 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm

polychrome

Edition:

English-language edition.

Place of Publication:

Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.

System Details:

text file

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. 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 milieus and movements in which she traveled. No fan of the Dadaists and their legacy will want to miss this English-language translation.0Translated from German by Damion Searls.

Contents:

1889-1908

1908-1914

1914-1919

1919-1929

1929-1933

1933-1940

1940-1943.

Notes:

Translated from the German.

"[R]evised slightly for Anglophone readers."--title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9780226311210

022631121X

OCLC:

1001907021