Intimate Collaborations: Kandinsky and Münter, Arp and Taeuber

by Bibiana K Obler

This compelling examination of the work and lives of Expressionist artists Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele M nter and Dadaists Hans Arp and Sophie Taeuber illuminates the roles of gender and the applied arts in abstraction's early days. Both 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300195796
• ISBN13: 9780300195798
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.4" x 10.3"