Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction

Name: Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction
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Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction presents the extraordinary breadth of Taeuber-Arp's nearly 30-year career, during which she excelled as a designer, dancer, architect, painter, sculptor, and more. The book accompanies the first major retrospectives in the US and UK, showcasing around 400 works that reveal her seamless blend of art, craft, and design. Rich essays and detailed research illuminate her interdisciplinary methods and the dynamic tension between abstraction and figuration across her oeuvre.
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Ideal for art lovers, historians, and scholars interested in modernism, abstraction, and the convergence of craft and fine art. Also well-suited to readers seeking comprehensive exhibition catalogues and those fascinated by pioneering women artists.

Accompanying the first Sophie Taeuber-Arp retrospective in the U.S. in forty years, and the first ever on the artist in the UK, a comprehensive survey of the abstract artist’s vibrant and profoundly innovative work across disciplines

Accompanying the first Sophie Taeuber-Arp retrospective in the U.S. in nearly forty years, this catalogue is a comprehensive survey of the abstract artist's vibrant and profoundly innovative work across disciplines.

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Over the course of her almost three-decade-long career, Sophie Taeuber-Arp worked as a designer of textiles, beadwork, costumes, furniture, and interiors, as well as an applied arts professor, dancer, puppet maker, architect, painter, sculptor, illustrator, and magazine editor. Through her exceptionally diverse artistic output and various professional alliances, Taeuber-Arp consistently challenged the historically constructed boundaries separating art, craft, and design.

Published in conjunction with the first retrospective of Taeuber-Arp's work in the United States in nearly forty years, and the first-ever retrospective in the United Kingdom, Sophie Taeuber-Arp: Living Abstraction is the most comprehensive survey of this multifaceted abstract artist's innovative and wide-ranging body of work. The catalogue explores the artist's interdisciplinary and cross-pollinating approach to abstraction through some 400 works, including textiles, beadwork, polychrome marionettes, architectural and interior designs, stained glass windows, works on paper, paintings, and relief sculptures.

Essays by curators and scholars examine the full sweep of Taeuber-Arp's career, outlining the scope of her creative production at different points in time. A comprehensive illustrated chronology, the first essay published on Taeuber-Arp's materials and techniques, and a scholarly exhibition checklist based on new research and analysis detail the expansive nature of Taeuber-Arp's production.

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Critics praise this volume for radically reshaping perceptions of Taeuber-Arp, highlighting the integration of her applied and fine arts. It is described as a revelation that opens a time capsule of her artistry and dismantles hierarchical distinctions between media. Reviewers celebrate its comprehensive scope and scholarly depth, recognising Taeuber-Arp's vital role within modern artistic networks.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781633451070

Publisher: Museum of Modern Art

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 01 April 2021

Country: United States

Imprint: Museum of Modern Art

Illustration: 435 Illustrations

Contributors:

Edited by Anne Umland
Edited by Walburga Krupp
Edited by Charlotte Healy
Contributions by Laura Braverman
Contributions by Leah Dickerman
Contributions by Briony Fer
Contributions by Mark Franko
Contributions by Maria Gough
Contributions by Jodi Hauptman

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 230.0mm

Height: 267.0mm

Weight: 1990g

Pages: 352

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Arts & Culture Non-Fiction

About the Author

Sophie Taeuber-Arp was born in 1889 in Davos, Switzerland, and trained at the interdisciplinary Debschitz School in Munich. In 1914, she began a successful applied arts practice in Zurich, where she also taught textile design and participated in the Dada movement. Starting in the late 1920s, Taeuber-Arp completed several architectural and interior design projects, most significantly the Aubette entertainment complex in Strasbourg. When she moved to Paris in 1929, she turned her attention to abstract paintings and painted wood reliefs. During the Nazi occupation, Taeuber-Arp spent her final years in the South of France, and died of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning in 1943. Anne Umland is The Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Walburga Krupp is an art historian and curator based in Remagen, Germany, and Research Assistant for the Sophie Taeuber-Arp publishing project, Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. Charlotte Healy is Research Assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.