Arp: Paper

Discover renowned avant-gardist Hans/Jean Arps works with and on paper in this expansive survey of the artists 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 Arps works on paper, as well as his paper collages, providing a comprehensive picture of their role in the artists 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 artists unique vocabulary of shapes and gestures emerges through the books five thematically