Sophie Taeuber-Arp – författare

Conceived on the eve of World War II, the facsimile edition of this important 1930s magazine offers a unique and multifaceted perspective on abstract art during the first decades of the twentieth century. Created by French-Swis artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp, Plastique encompasses the spirit of avant-garde art in Europe and the United States of America in a time where modern ideas and thinking started to become a dangerous good. Paintings, drawings, sculptures and texts in English, French and German trace traditions and changes in modern art through artworks of influential artists and voices of art historians and critics – often close friends with Taeuber-Arp. Plastique’s five issues illus-trate the appreciation and the close bond between abstract artists in European countries and the United States and depict an air of internationality in times of increasing nationalism.

An absorbing study of Swiss artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp’s influential work, looking in depth at the role of the curve in the artist’s formal lexicon. Edited and introduced by Briony Fer, Sophie Taeuber-Arp: la règle des courbes / The Rule of Curves examines the work of leading twentieth-century artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp, whose pioneering, multifaceted work challenged traditional hierarchies and conventional binary oppositions, and asserted art’s urgent relevance to daily life. This bilingual, clothbound volume focuses on the formal logic that drove her bold and wide-ranging creative production while revealing how moving and working between mediums simultaneously expanded and crystallized her aesthetic. Alongside Fer’s new critical insights into Taeuber-Arp’s work, an essay by Jenny Nachtigall explores the artist’s “environments” and how notions of gravity, motion, and the cinematic offer keys to understanding the artist’s kinaesthetic sensibility.