Marie Cuttoli

The Modern Thread from Miró to Man Ray

Cindy Kang, Laura Pirkelbauer, Laura L. F. Sevelis , Virginia Gardner Troy

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Yale University Press
10 March 2020

Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus; Textile artworks; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections; History of fashion

One woman’s influential contribution to modernism, achieved through a fascinating revival of tapestry

Marie Cuttoli (1879–1973) lived in Algeria and Paris in the 1920s and collected the work of avant-garde artists such as Georges Braque, Joan Miró, and Pablo Picasso. In the ensuing decades, she went on to revive the French tapestry tradition and to popularize it as a modernist medium. This catalogue traces Cuttoli’s career, beginning with her work in fashion and interiors under her label Myrbor. She subsequently commissioned artists including Braque, Le Corbusier, Fernand Léger, Man Ray, Miró, and Picasso to design cartoons to be woven at Aubusson, a center of tapestry production since the 17th century. Today these cartoons—paintings and collages by canonical artists—are often understood as autonomous works of art, but this catalogue uncovers their original purpose as textile designs. Beautifully illustrated with rarely exhibited works by giants of European modernism, Marie Cuttoli reveals the significant contributions of a shrewd and visionary woman as well as the role of the decorative arts in the development of the movement.

Distributed for the Barnes Foundation

Exhibition Schedule:

The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia

(February 23–August 23, 2020)

Contributions by: Laura Pirkelbauer, Laura L. F. Sevelis, Virginia Gardner Troy, K. L. H. Wells
Edited by: Cindy Kang
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 254mm, Width: 229mm, Spine: 2mm
Weight: 992g
ISBN: 9780300251319
ISBN 10: 0300251319
Pages: 160
Publication Date: 10 March 2020
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Cindy Kang is associate curator at the Barnes Foundation.

Reviews for Marie Cuttoli: The Modern Thread from Miró to Man Ray

Kang transcends the purely biographical approach that has long plagued monographs on craftspeople and designers to situate Cuttoli's production within the critical discourses surrounding gender, colonialism and the decorative. -Sarah Parrish, The Burlington Magazine