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Sophie Taeuber Arp - Today is Tomorrow

Hardback

Main Details

Title Sophie Taeuber Arp - Today is Tomorrow
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Aargauer Kunsthaus
Edited by Kunsthalle Bielefeld
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:288
Dimensions(mm): Height 310,Width 240
Category/GenreArt and design styles - c 1900 to c 1960
Painting and paintings
Individual artists and art monographs
ISBN/Barcode 9783858817570
ClassificationsDewey:759.9494
Audience
General
Illustrations 250 colour, 50 b&w

Publishing Details

Publisher Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag
Imprint Scheidegger und Spiess AG, Verlag
Publication Date 24 September 2014
Publication Country Switzerland

Description

Sophie Taeuber ranks among the pioneers of classical avant-garde in the first half of the 20th century. Born 1889 in Switzerland and educated in St. Gallen, Switzerland, at Wilhelm von Debschitz's teaching and experimental workshop in Munich and the School of Applied Arts in Hamburg. She returned to Switzerland in 1915 to study at Rudolf von Laban's dance school in Zurich, where she became involved in the Dada-movement and also taught textile design 1916-29. From 1928, Taeuber lived and worked in her studio home in Meudon near Paris until she had to flee from German occupation to the south of France and again in 1942 to Zurich, where she died in January 1943. Richly illustrated, this comprehensive new monograph on Sophie Taeuber can for the first time draw on many private collections, presenting an abundance of works previously unpublished or kept from public display for decades. It documents Taeuber's entire range of creativity and her mastery of material, shape, and colour, her inventiveness and her interdisciplinary thinking and approach. It shows her remarkable versatility in an oeuvre covering all disciplines of the modernist movement: applied and fine art, dance, architecture, interior design and teaching.

Author Biography

Founded in 1959, the Aargauer Kunsthaus is one of the leading art museums in Switzerland. Kunsthalle Bielefeld is a museum of modern and contemporary art in Bielefeld, Germany.