Research Catalog

Title

Sophie Taeuber-Arp : living abstraction / edited by Anne Umland and Walburga Krupp with Charlotte Healy ; additional contributions by Laura Braverman [and 14 others].

Publication

• New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2021]
• ©2021

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Additional Authors

• Taeuber-Arp, Sophie, 1889-1943.
• Umland, Anne
• Krupp, Walburga
• Healy, Charlotte
• Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution
• Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, host institution
• Tate Modern (Gallery), host institution

Description

351 pages : illustrations (some color); 28 cm

Summary

"Published to accompany the first retrospective of Sophie Taeuber-Arp's work in the United States in 40 years, Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction presents a comprehensive survey of this multifaceted innovator's wide-ranging body of work and establishes unequivocally her place in the pantheon of 20th-century abstract art. Taeuber-Arp's background in the applied arts and dance, her involvement in the Zurich Dada movement, and her projects for architectural spaces were essential to her development of a uniquely versatile and vibrant abstract vocabulary. Through her artistic output and various professional alliances, Taeuber-Arp consistently challenged the historically constructed boundaries separating fine art from craft and design. This richly illustrated catalogue explores the artist's interdisciplinary and cross-pollinating approach to abstraction through some four hundred works, including textiles, beadwork, polychrome marionettes, architectural and interior designs, stained-glass windows, works on paper, paintings, and relief sculptures." -- Publisher's description

Alternative Title

Living abstraction

Subject

• Taeuber-Arp, Sophie, 1889-1943 > Exhibitions
• Taeuber-Arp, Sophie, 1889-1943
• 1900-1999
• Art, Abstract > 20th century > Exhibitions
• Art, Abstract > Switzerland > Exhibitions
• Art, Abstract
• Switzerland

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at Kunstmuseum Basel, 19th March-20th June 2021; Tate Modern, London, 13th July-17th October 2021; and The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 21st November 2021-12th March 2022.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Directors' foreword / Glenn D. Lowry, Josef Helfenstein, Frances Morris -- Acknowledgments / Anne Umland, Walburga Krupp, Eva Reifert, Natalia Sidlina -- Sophie Taeuber-Arp: an introduction / Anne Umland, Walburga Krupp -- Applied arts, 1915-29. Beautiful, perfect things: Sophie Taeuber-Arp;s early applied-arts career / Walburga Krupp -- The many dimensions of Sophie Taeuber-Arp's beaded bags / T'ai Smith -- Activating form: the ball costumes / Natalia Sidlina -- Dada, 1916-20. The choreographic imaginary: between expressionist dance and visual abstraction / Mark Franko -- Interplay of the arts on stage: the King Stag marionettes and stage sets / Medea Hoch -- Object, mask, abstraction: the heads / Leah Dickerman -- Architecture and interiors, 1926-35. Color as material: the Strasbourg interiors / Michael White -- The art of modern living: architecture and interiors from Clamart to Berlin / Juliet Kinchin -- Between portfolio and archive: the Presentation album / Jana Teuscher -- Abstraction and artists' groups, 1929-39. Balancing act / Briony Fer -- Abstraction in two and three dimensions / Eva Reifert -- Safeguarding abstraction: the journal Plastique / Adrian Sudhalter -- Landscapes and cityscapes, 1921-42. Sophie Taeuber-Arp's camera peripatetica / Maria Gough -- Art in wartime, 1939-43. Drawing without end / Jodi Hauptman -- Planning and precision: Sophie Taeuber-Arp's working methods / Annie Wilker -- Chronology / Laura Braverman, Walburga Krupp -- Checklist of the exhibition / Charlotte Healy, Annie Wilker, Walburga Krupp -- Selected bibliography / Charlotte Healy.

Call Number

JQF 22-235

ISBN

• 9781633451070
• 1633451070

OCLC

1233311074

Title

Sophie Taeuber-Arp : living abstraction / edited by Anne Umland and Walburga Krupp with Charlotte Healy ; additional contributions by Laura Braverman [and 14 others].

Publisher

New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2021]

Copyright Date

©2021

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1900-1999

Added Author

Taeuber-Arp, Sophie, 1889-1943. Works. Selections.

Umland, Anne, editor.

Krupp, Walburga, editor.

Healy, Charlotte, editor.

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution.

Öffentliche Kunstsammlung Basel, host institution.

Tate Modern (Gallery), host institution.

Other Standard Identifier

MoMA 2481

Research Call Number

JQF 22-235