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Sophie Taeuber-Arp and the avant-garde : a biography
- Title
- Sophie Taeuber-Arp and the avant-garde : a biography / Roswitha Mair ; translated by Damion Searls.
- Author
- Mair, Roswitha
- Publication
- Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | N7153.T33 M313 2018 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Searls, Damion
- Description
- viii, 222 pages, 15 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Handwerk und Avantgarde. English
- Alternative Title
- Handwerk und Avantgarde.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Note
- Translated from the German.
- "[R]evised slightly for Anglophone readers."--title page verso.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-222).
- Language (note)
- Translated from the German.
- Contents
- 1889-1908 -- 1908-1914 -- 1914-1919 -- 1919-1929 -- 1929-1933 -- 1933-1940 -- 1940-1943.
- ISBN
- 9780226311210
- 022631121X
- 9780226311357 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2017038266
- OCLC
- on1001907021
- SCSB-9153743
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library