Arp: Paper
Will be published approx. on 10. September 2026
Book
Hardback
304 pages
978-3-907493-17-5 (ISBN)
Description
Discover renowned avant-gardist Hans/Jean Arp's works with and on paper in this expansive survey of the artist's drawings and collages.
From his early years as part of Zurich Dada until the 1960s, Hans/Jean Arp produced an extraordinary and influential body of work. He is best known for two- and three-dimensional work deploying biomorphic forms that would come to epitomize organic abstraction. This new publication focuses on Arp's works on paper, as well as his paper collages, providing a comprehensive picture of their role in the artist's multifaceted output, including as a vehicle for play and as a way of inventing new worlds. Split across five chapters, some two hundred illustrations offer a rich and representative selection of works that have mostly never been reproduced or exhibited publicly before. An intriguing new perspective on the artist's unique vocabulary of shapes and gestures emerges through the book's five thematically organized chapters and the texts accompanying them, while an illuminating introduction by Arie Hartog and Loretta Wuertenberger unpacks the formal language and artistic resonances of these works, both drawing out their connections to Arp's iconic sculptural practice and considering his prolific work with and on paper as a fascinating world in itself.
From his early years as part of Zurich Dada until the 1960s, Hans/Jean Arp produced an extraordinary and influential body of work. He is best known for two- and three-dimensional work deploying biomorphic forms that would come to epitomize organic abstraction. This new publication focuses on Arp's works on paper, as well as his paper collages, providing a comprehensive picture of their role in the artist's multifaceted output, including as a vehicle for play and as a way of inventing new worlds. Split across five chapters, some two hundred illustrations offer a rich and representative selection of works that have mostly never been reproduced or exhibited publicly before. An intriguing new perspective on the artist's unique vocabulary of shapes and gestures emerges through the book's five thematically organized chapters and the texts accompanying them, while an illuminating introduction by Arie Hartog and Loretta Wuertenberger unpacks the formal language and artistic resonances of these works, both drawing out their connections to Arp's iconic sculptural practice and considering his prolific work with and on paper as a fascinating world in itself.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
Switzerland
Illustrations
285 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 315 mm
Width: 245 mm
ISBN-13
978-3-907493-17-5 (9783907493175)
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Persons
Arie Hartog is director of the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus in Bremen, Germany, where he oversees a joint initiative by the museum and the Stiftung Arp e.V. to advance scholarship on Arp. He is the author of Hans Arp: Skulpturen - Eine Bestandsaufnahme/Sculptures - A Critical Survey (2012) and takes a special interest in the artist's studio practice.
Loretta Wuertenberger is the founding director of the Institute for Artists & Estates. She has been advising and planning artists' estates for more than two decades and is the author of The Artist's Estate: A Handbook for Artists, Executors, and Heirs (2016). Wuertenberger is also coeditor of the Stiftung Arp Papers and director of Schlossgut Schwante Sculpture Park.
Anna Schrader is a curator at the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, where she looks after its holdings of Arp's work and is responsible for research on him and Sophie Taeuber-Arp. She is editor of the website www.sophietaeuberarp.org, which presents the full spectrum of the artist's work.
Friederike Bolte is pursuing an MA at Bremen University. Her scholarly focus is Arp's prints and she works at the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus as a research assistant.
Loretta Wuertenberger is the founding director of the Institute for Artists & Estates. She has been advising and planning artists' estates for more than two decades and is the author of The Artist's Estate: A Handbook for Artists, Executors, and Heirs (2016). Wuertenberger is also coeditor of the Stiftung Arp Papers and director of Schlossgut Schwante Sculpture Park.
Anna Schrader is a curator at the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus, where she looks after its holdings of Arp's work and is responsible for research on him and Sophie Taeuber-Arp. She is editor of the website www.sophietaeuberarp.org, which presents the full spectrum of the artist's work.
Friederike Bolte is pursuing an MA at Bremen University. Her scholarly focus is Arp's prints and she works at the Gerhard-Marcks-Haus as a research assistant.