Sophie Taeuber-Arp and the Avant-Garde: A Biography
Arts and entertainment, Fine arts biography, General non-fiction
Synthetic audio, Automated braille
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 Now 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 milieux and movements in which she traveled No fan of the Dadaists and their legacy will want to miss this first English-language translation