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 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 the philosophical and commercial aspects 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 along with spiritual and intellectual endeavors―informed the development of abstraction.

Intimate Collaborations: Kandinsky and Münter, Arp and Taeuber

Arts & Photography

Obler, Bibiana

History & Criticism

Yale University Press

Review\n‘Lynda Benglis redefined sculpture in the 1960s and is now at her most prolific.’ – New York Times\n‘She’s a globe-trotting artist who can shock and delight at once.’ – Financial Times\n‘She rocked the art world.’ – Washington Post\n‘Her work has been about seizing art as a tool of empowerment and autonomy.’ – Artforum\n‘Benglis has always gone her own way – an attitude that has sometimes got her into trouble. But trouble can lead to great art.’ – Guardian\n‘[Benglis’s] work is consistently and irrepressibly ahead of its time.’ ― Roberta Smith\nThe definitive monograph on American sculptor and visual artist Lynda Benglis, one of the most important living artists today 
Since her arrival in New York from her native Louisiana in the late 1960s, Lynda Benglis gained recognition for creating a groundbreaking body of work that challenged sculpture and painting conventions in a largely male-dominated art world. 
A tireless explorer of new shape and materials, Benglis's gestural and formal approach to art-making has, over the years, elevated her to iconic status, her work being evidence of how process can wield pliant matter and let it 'take its own form'

Lynda Benglis (Phaidon Contemporary Artists Series)

Bonacina, Andrew

Lawrence, Nora

Humor & Entertainment

Phaidon Press

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