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Sonia Delaunay: Art, Design and Fashion
Text by Marta Ruiz del Árbol, Cécile Godefroy, Matteo de Leeuw-de Monti.
The many talents of the Parisian avant-garde’s Renaissance woman
Sonia Delaunay: Art, Design, Fashion provides a unified vision of the modernist pioneer’s work in painting, theatrical sets, advertising, interiors, fashion and textiles. Published for a landmark exhibition at Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, and drawing on new scholarship that emphasizes the multidisciplinary character of her art, it reproduces pieces loaned from public institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Musée de la Mode de Paris and the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, as well as from international private collections.
Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979) was raised in St. Petersburg, in Russia. After a brief period of study in Germany, she moved to Paris in 1905, and began painting in the Fauve style of Matisse and Derain. In 1909 she met Robert Delaunay, and together they devised a brighter version of Cubism that their friend the poet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire termed Orphism. Also among their friends was the poet Blaise Cendrars; one of Delaunay’s best-known works is her 1913 accordion-fold artist’s book collaboration with Cendrars, Prose of the Trans-Siberian Railway. In addition to her prolific 75-year painting career, she created brilliant textiles and fashion works for nearly three decades.
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...this lush monograph highlights the many talents of the Ukranian-born Frenchmodernist Sonia Delauney, providing fascinating insights into her discipline hopping work.
Begin and end your 2017 gift book search with Sonia Delaunay: Art, Design and Fashion, technically a 2018 title that we managed to release just in time for the holiday season. Beautifully designed, printed and bound to the exacting standards of the Madrid’s renowned Thyssen-Bornemisza foundation, this 236-page hardcover brings together the pioneering Modernist’s work in painting, theatrical sets, advertising, interiors, fashion and textiles. “I do not know how to define my painting,” Delaunay wrote in 1978. “But no matter, because I don’t trust classifications and systems. How should I define what is done with the heart?” Featured image is “Gouache,” produced in 1938. continue to blog
Born in 1885 to a modest Jewish family in Odessa, then raised by an uncle in St. Petersburg and educated in Karlsruhe, Germany, Sonia Delaunay settled into the high bohemia of Paris’s Latin Quarter in the early 1900s. Together with her husband, Robert, she developed Simultanism, an art that “could personify modern life, that could reflect the simultaneity of the world.” Never content to rest, she designed a ‘simultaneous’ dress, book-bindings, lamp shades, textiles, and so much more. “Colorful reminiscences of her Russian childhood, the artist’s first appliquéd creations testify to the quest for a total art, in the Wagnerian sense, from textiles to architecture, and illustrate her willingness to have the aesthetic of Simultanism penetrate the feminized field of popular culture.” Featured image is “Pyjamas/Dress” (1923/25). continue to blog
Visit ARTBOOK | D.A.P. in Booth #109-110 at the Art Research Librarians of North America annual conference in New York! From February 26 - 28, we will be featuring key scholarly titles, new and classic monographs, influential surveys, relevant exhibition catalogs, and artists' writings at the New York Hilton Hotel Midtown. continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 8.5 x 9.5 in. / 236 pgs / 184 color / 52 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $49.95 LIST PRICE: CANADA $67.5 GBP £44.99 ISBN: 9788417173012 PUBLISHER: Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza AVAILABLE: 10/24/2017 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Out of stock indefinitely AVAILABILITY: Not available TERRITORY: WORLD Except Spain
Published by Fundación Colección Thyssen-Bornemisza. Text by Marta Ruiz del Árbol, Cécile Godefroy, Matteo de Leeuw-de Monti.
The many talents of the Parisian avant-garde’s Renaissance woman
Sonia Delaunay: Art, Design, Fashion provides a unified vision of the modernist pioneer’s work in painting, theatrical sets, advertising, interiors, fashion and textiles. Published for a landmark exhibition at Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, and drawing on new scholarship that emphasizes the multidisciplinary character of her art, it reproduces pieces loaned from public institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, the Bibliothèque nationale de France, the Musée de la Mode de Paris and the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid, as well as from international private collections.
Sonia Delaunay (1885–1979) was raised in St. Petersburg, in Russia. After a brief period of study in Germany, she moved to Paris in 1905, and began painting in the Fauve style of Matisse and Derain. In 1909 she met Robert Delaunay, and together they devised a brighter version of Cubism that their friend the poet and art critic Guillaume Apollinaire termed Orphism. Also among their friends was the poet Blaise Cendrars; one of Delaunay’s best-known works is her 1913 accordion-fold artist’s book collaboration with Cendrars, Prose of the Trans-Siberian Railway. In addition to her prolific 75-year painting career, she created brilliant textiles and fashion works for nearly three decades.
