INTIMATE COLLABORATIONS

This compelling examination of the work and lives of Expressionist artists Wassily Kandinsky and Gabriele Münter and Dadaists Hans A rp and Sophie Taeuber illuminates the roles of gender and the applied arts in abstractions early days. Both couples, like Expressio nism and Dada more generally, strived to transcend the fragmented individualism promoted by capitalism. Through abstraction and by u nsettling the boundaries between the decorative and fine arts, they negotiated tensions between the philosophical and commercial asp ects of t...[Read more]