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Sonia Delaunay : the life of an artist / Stanley Baron, in collaboration with Jacques Damase.
Author
Baron, Stanley
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
New York : H.N. Abrams, 1995.
Description
208 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
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Marquand Library - Remote Storage: Marquand Use Only
ND553.D37 B375 1995
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Artists
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France
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Biography
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Delaunay, Sonia
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Damase, Jacques
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Library of Congress genre(s)
Biographies
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collective biographies
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Summary note
Sonia Delaunay (1885-1979) was a woman of many talents - an innovative artist and a trend-setting textile and fashion designer. This volume, which was written with full access to her journals, sketchbooks, and other personal records, and includes some 200 illustrations, many never before published, traces Delaunay's life beginning with her childhood in Russia and art studies in Germany. She moved to Paris in 1905 and immediately felt at home. Once she married, Delaunay kept in the background though she was producing numerous works of art. Her most spectacular work spanned the 1920s and 30s - not only paintings and drawings filled with joyous color, but also bookbindings, tapestries, carpets, and wholly original and exhilarating commercial fabric designs. Here she made the greatest use of her natural flair for color, which also had a profound influence on her husband's work. No biography of Sonia Delaunay could express her inner character without a generous sampling of her art. This book's numerous illustrations are drawn from all the areas in which she was so productive, and include many personal photographs as well.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 202) and index.
Contents
Ch. 1. Origins
Ch. 2. Paris and The Beginnings of an Artist's Career
Ch. 3. Robert
Ch. 4. Wife and Artist
Ch. 5. The Avant Garde
Ch. 6. Working with Blaise Cendrars
Ch. 7. Into World War I
Ch. 8. The Years in Madrid
Ch. 9. Back to Paris, Designing Fabrics
Ch. 10. 'Years of Liberation': Hard Times
Ch. 11. The International Exposition of 1937
Ch. 12. Life After Robert
Ch. 13. The Last Stages of the War
Ch. 14. Back to Paris Again: Establishing Robert
Ch. 15. Putting Sonia First
Ch. 16. Work and Loneliness
Ch. 17. The Last Ten Years: Happiness and Fulfillment.
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ISBN
0810932229
9780810932227
LCCN
94035072
OCLC
31046122
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