Sonia Delaunay.

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Sonia Delaunay (1885 - 1979) is one of the most important female artists of the early twentieth century, whose contribution to the European avant-garde was fundamental. Russian-born, she moved to Paris in 1906 where she studied at the Academie de la Palette. Her early work was infl uenced by the bold Fauvist paintings of Matisse, Gauguin and Van Gogh among others. Shifting her interest to abstraction, she celebrated the modern world and urban lif...

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ISBN:

9781849763172

Description:

288 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 29 cm

Notes:

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Sonia Delaunay Musée d' Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 17 Octover 2014 - 22 February 2015 ; Tate Modern, London 15 April - 9 August 2015

Contents:

In St. Petersburg / Jean-Claude Marcadé
Nu jaune, 1908 / Brigitte Leal
Being Russian in Paris / Sherry Buckberrough
'Voyelles' : Sonia Delaunay and the universal language of colour hearing / Pascal Rousseau
Sonia Delaunay at the German Salon d'Automne / Sophie Goetzmann
On time : Sonia Delaunay's sequential Simultanism / Juliet Bellow
Sonia Delaunay, Tristan Tzara, Iliazd and others / Cécile Bargues
The métier of Simultanism / Cecile Godefroy
Sonia Delaunay : the designs for Metz and Company / Matteo de Leeuw-de Monti
A circular story / Guitemie Maldonado
Confused origins / Laurence Bertrand Dorléac
Art criticism and the problem of the non-modern story of modern art / Griselda Pollock
Conquering the Paris art scene in the 1950s and 1960s / Domitille d'Orgeval
In focus : picturing Sonia Delaunay / Juliet Bingham
'Le vierge, le vivace et le bel aujourd'hui' / Anne Montfort

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2631124

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Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris
Tate Modern (Gallery)

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