A forgotten Maverick
Subtitle: Marlow Moss
By: edited bySabine Schaschl ; translations from German into English: Simon Thomas ; translations from English into German: Ewa Dewes
Contributors: Schaschl-Cooper, Sabine, editor; Dews, Ewa, translation; Haus Konstruktiv (Zurich, Switzerland)
Published: 2017
Language: ger
Number of pages: 126
ISBN-13: 9783775743006
Subjects: Women artists; Exhibitions; Abstract Painting; Minimal art; British Painting; Relief (Sculpture); Constructivism (Art); Abstract Sculpture; Avant-garde (Aesthetics)
Other titles: Marlow Moss
Description: The British artist Marlow Moss (1889-1958) is one of the few early female Constructivists who inspired the great modernist masters. For instance, the so-called double line was one of her most important inventions, which she began employing in her paintings in 1930. It is one of the elements that both Piet Mondrian and Jean Gorin picked up on for their own neo-sculptural compositions. Even though they do not openly refer to her, their works are still closely related to Moss and they share her original, new ideas about art and composition. Unlike her contemporaries, Moss did not limit herself to painting. She applied her linear structures and mathematical principles to reliefs and sculptures as well. These aspects of her work, along with her unusual life, are discussed in detail in this exhibition catalogue.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, February 9-May 7, 2017.

Includes bibliographical references.

German and English.
Table of contents: title: Eine in Vergessenheit geratene Vor- und Querdenkerin = a neglected forward and lateral thinker / Sabine Schaschl; title: Marlow Moss; title: die Konstruktion einer neuen Wirklichkeit = Marlow Moss; title: the construction of a new reality / Ankie de Jongh-Vermeulen; title: Die Doppellinie von Miss//Moss = the double-line of Miss//Moss / Lucy Howarth.