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Marie Cuttoli: The Modern Thread from Miró to Man Ray

Marie Cuttoli: The Modern Thread from Miró to Man Ray

Kang, Cindy
Pirkelbauer, Laura
Sevelis, Laura L. F.

Hardcover

Art HistoryFashion & AccessoriesGeneral Art

Publisher Price: $45.00

ISBN10: 0300251319
ISBN13: 9780300251319
Publisher: Barnes Foundation
Published: Mar 24 2020
Pages: 160
Weight: 2.20
Height: 0.70 Width: 9.30 Depth: 10.30
Language: English
One woman's influential contribution to modernism, achieved through a fascinating revival of tapestry

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 Léger, 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, Marie Cuttoli 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.

Distributed for the Barnes Foundation

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