"Published on the occasion of 'Marie Cuttoli: The Modern Thread from Miró to Man Ray', organized by the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, February 23-May 10, 2020." -- Colophon. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Director's foreword and acknowledgments -- Marie Cuttoli's modernism / Cindy Kang -- Myrbor a photo essay -- The Algerian experience of Marie Cuttoli, 1920-1935 / Laura Pirkelbauer -- The Cuttoli tapestries in the United States a paradox of verisimilitude / Virginia Gardner Troy -- Marie Cuttoli and the making of tapestry / Bruno Ythier --Marie Cuttoli's postwar legacy pictorialism in the age of abstraction / K. L. H. Wells -- Catalogue of tapestry projects.
Summary:
Marie Cuttoli (1879-1973) lived in Algeria and Paris in the 1920s and collected the work of avant-garde artists such as Georges Braque, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picasso. In the ensuing decades, she went on to revive the French tapestry tradition and to popularize it as a modernist medium. This catalogue traces Cuttoli's career, beginning with her work in fashion and interiors under her label Myrbor. She subsequently commissioned artists including Braque, Le Corbusier, Fernand Leger, Man Ray, Miró, and Picasso to design cartoons to be woven at Aubusson, a center of tapestry production since the 17th century. Today these cartoons-paintings and collages by canonical artists-are often understood as autonomous works of art, but this catalogue uncovers their original purpose as textile designs. Beautifully illustrated with rarely exhibited works by giants of European modernism, [this book] reveals the significant contributions of a shrewd and visionary woman as well as the role of the decorative arts in the development of the movement. Exhibition: The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, USA (23.02.-10.05.2020).
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