The Russian artist Sonia Delaunay, who with her husband Robert Delaunay was a leading light of the Cubist splinter movement, Orphism, branched out after the First World War into a distinctive career of her own. Between 1920 and 1930, she produced some of the most striking and original fabric designs of modern times. She was the inventor of abstract designs for fabrics, and her materials were the rage among fashionable circles in the Art Deco era. Jacques Damase, the French publisher and art historian, inherited Delaunay’s original designs and fabric samples, many of which were photographed for the first time for this book. His personal, informative introduction is complemented by a selection of writings by Delaunay’s contemporary admirers and critics.
- ISBN13 9780500279472
- Publish Date 16 June 1997 (first published 11 March 1996)
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Out of Print 22 August 2023
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Thames & Hudson Ltd
- Format Paperback
- Pages 176
- Language English