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Item Number: 127828
Title: Intimate Collaborations : Kandinsky and Münter, Arp and Taeuber
Author: Obler, Bibiana K
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9780300195798
Description: New Haven: Yale University Press, 2014. 25cm., hardcover, 272pp., 70 color, 55 b&w illus. Summary : This compelling examination of the work and lives of Expressionist artists Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter and Dadaists Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber illuminates the roles of gender and the applied arts in abstraction’s early days. Both artist couples, like Expressionism and Dada more generally, strived to transcend the fragmented individualism promoted by capitalism. Through abstraction and by unsettling the boundaries between the decorative and fine arts, they negotiated tensions between their philosophical aspirations and the commercial materiality of their production. Both pairs were feminist—the women ambitious and the men supportive of their work—but theirs was a feminism that embraced differences between the sexes. This innovative look at the personal relationships of two influential artist couples shows how everyday life — mundane concerns intermingled and continuous with spiritual and intellectual endeavors—influenced the development of abstraction.
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