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Project name Sonia Delaunay: Fashion and Fabrics
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Persons Jacques Damase, Sonia Delaunay
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Period 1997
URL http://www.amazon.com/Sonia-Delaunay-Fashion-Jacques-Damase/dp/0500279470
Tags art deco, fabric design, robert delaunay, fashion history, book,
Text The Russian-born artist Sonia Delaunay, who with her husband, Robert Delaunay, was a leading light of the Cubist splinter group Orphism, branched out after the First World War into a distinctive career of her own. Between 1920 and 1930, a decade full of activity and success, she produced some of the most striking and original fabric designs of modern times. She was the inventor of abstract design for fabrics, and her materials--brightly colored and filled with geometric patterns--were the rage among fashionable circles in the Art Deco era. Delaunay made imaginative waistcoats for Tristan Tzara, Louis Aragon, Ren Crevel, and other Surrealist poets.