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