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Sophie Taeuber-Arp : la règle des courbes = the rule of curves / édité par = edited by Briony Fer ; essais de = essays by Briony Fer and Jenny Nachtigall.
Fine Arts Library N7153.T33 A4 2026
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Taeuber-Arp, Sophie, 1889-1943--Exhibitions.
- Taeuber-Arp, Sophie.
- Women artists--Switzerland--Exhibitions.
- Women artists.
- Art--Switzerland--Exhibitions.
- Art.
- Taeuber-Arp, Sophie, 1889-1943.
- Switzerland.
- Genre:
- exhibition catalogs.
- Exhibition catalogs
- Exhibition catalogs.
- Physical Description:
- 190 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), portraits; 28 cm
- Other Title:
- Règle des courbes
- Rule of curves
- Place of Publication:
- [Switzerland] : Hauser & Wirth Publishers, [2026]
- Language Note:
- Parallel text in French and English.
- Summary:
- Edited with an essay by art historian Briony Fer, The Rule of Curves examines the work of leading 20th-century artist and designer Sophie Taeuber-Arp. Taeuber-Arp defied categorization during her brief career through her work as a painter, sculptor, architect, performer, choreographer, teacher, writer and designer of textiles, stage sets and interiors. Reconciling extremes with confidence--Dada and Geometric Abstraction, fine art and utilitarian objects--Taeuber-Arp's works boldly engaged with the intellectual context of international modernism. This bilingual clothbound volume is thematically driven, focusing on the formal logic that drove her innovative and wide-ranging creative production while revealing how working between mediums both expanded and crystallized her aesthetic. It particularly traces Taeuber-Arp's incorporation of curves into her geometric abstractions--a motif that elaborated upon Jean (Hans) Arp's biomorphic visual language. Alongside Fer's new critical insights into Taeuber-Arp's work, an essay by scholar Jenny Nachtigall explores the artist's "environments" and how notions of gravity, motion and the cinematic offer keys to understanding the artist's kinaesthetic sensibility.
- Notes:
- Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at Hauser & Wirth, Paris, January 17-March 7, 2026.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- On the occasion of an exhibition held at Hauser & Wirth, Paris, January 17 - March 7, 2026.
- ISBN:
- 9783907493168
- 3907493168
- OCLC:
- 1527331779
- Publisher Number:
- 9783907493168
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