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The first comprehensive examination of the Orphist avant-garde, this revelatory exhibition catalogue traces Orphism’s roots, explores its cross-disciplinary reach, and considers its transnational reverberations across sixteen illustrated texts by a multigenerational roster of authors from various fields. In-depth essays offer new perspectives, delineating Orphism’s connections to dance, music, and poetry, and analyzing the historical and cultural circumstances that shaped its ethos. More than ninety artworks in multiple mediums are punctuated by micro-narratives that view select artists through the Orphist lens, illuminating the lives and ideas of established and lesser-known figures alike, including Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Mainie Jellett, František Kupka, Francis Picabia, Morgan Russell, and Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso.
Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930 is organized by Tracey Bashkoff, Senior Director of Collections and Senior Curator, and Vivien Greene, Senior Curator, 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art, with the support of Bellara Huang, Curatorial Assistant, Exhibitions.
Learn more: guggenheim.org/exhibition/harmony-and-dissonance-orphism-in-paris-1910-1930
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The first comprehensive examination of the Orphist avant-garde, this revelatory exhibition catalogue traces Orphism’s roots, explores its cross-disciplinary reach, and considers its transnational reverberations across sixteen illustrated texts by a multigenerational roster of authors from various fields. In-depth essays offer new perspectives, delineating Orphism’s connections to dance, music, and poetry, and analyzing the historical and cultural circumstances that shaped its ethos. More than ninety artworks in multiple mediums are punctuated by micro-narratives that view select artists through the Orphist lens, illuminating the lives and ideas of established and lesser-known figures alike, including Robert Delaunay, Sonia Delaunay, Mainie Jellett, František Kupka, Francis Picabia, Morgan Russell, and Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso.
Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930 is organized by Tracey Bashkoff, Senior Director of Collections and Senior Curator, and Vivien Greene, Senior Curator, 19th- and Early 20th-Century Art, with the support of Bellara Huang, Curatorial Assistant, Exhibitions.
Learn more: guggenheim.org/exhibition/harmony-and-dissonance-orphism-in-paris-1910-1930
#art #guggenheim #artbooks
