Sophie Taeuber-Arp was born in 1889 in Davos, Switzerland, and trained at the interdisciplinary Debschitz School in Munich. In 1914, she began a successful applied arts practice in Zurich, where she also taught textile design and participated in the Dada movement. Starting in the late 1920s, Taeuber-Arp completed several architectural and interior design projects, most significantly the Aubette entertainment complex in Strasbourg. When she moved to Paris in 1929, she turned her attention to abstract paintings and painted wood reliefs. During the Nazi occupation, Taeuber-Arp spent her final years in the South of France, and died of accidental carbon monoxide poisoning in 1943. Anne Umland is The Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Walburga Krupp is an art historian and curator based in Remagen, Germany, and Research Assistant for the Sophie Taeuber-Arp publishing project, Institute for Cultural Studies in the Arts, Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. Charlotte Healy is Research Assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

Sophie Taeuber-Arp: An Introduction Anne Umland and Walburga Krupp Chapter 1: Applied Arts in Zurich, 1915-29 Beautiful, Perfect Things: Sophie Taeuber-Arp's Early Applied-Arts Career Walburga Krupp Sophie Taeuber-Arp's Beaded Bags in Five Dimensions [working title] T'ai Smith Activating Form: The Ball Costumes Natalia Sidlina Chapter 2: Dada, 1916-20 The Choreographic Imaginary: Between Expressionist Dance and Visual Abstraction Mark Franko Interplay of the Arts on Stage: The King Stag Marionettes Medea Hoch Head-Objects [working title] Leah Dickerman Chapter 3: Architecture and Interiors, 1926-35 Color as Material: The Strasbourg Interiors Michael White Sophie Taeuber-Arp Architecture and Interiors [working title] Juliet Kinchin Between Portfolio and Archive: The Presentation Album Jana Teuscher Chapter 4: Abstraction and Artists' Groups, 1929-39 Balancing Act Briony Fer Abstraction in Two and Three Dimensions Eva Reifert plastique/plastic [working title] Adrian Sudhalter Chapter 5: Landscapes and Cityscapes, 1921-42 Sophie Taeuber-Arp's Camera Peripatetica [working title] Maria Gough Chapter 6: Art Under the Occupation, 1940-43 Art Under the Occupation [working title] Jodi Hauptman Back Matter Chronology Laura Braverman with Walburga Krupp Beauty Equals Order: Taeuber-Arp's Process [working title] Annie Wilker Checklist of the Exhibition Charlotte Healy and Annie Wilker with Walburga Krupp Bibliography Charlotte Healy

Accompanying the first Sophie Taeuber-Arp retrospective in the U.S. in forty years, and the first ever on the artist in the UK, a comprehensive survey of the abstract artist's vibrant and profoundly innovative work across disciplines