Hall of Femmes: Barbara Stauffacher Solomon e-bok

»Wittgenstein asks what we do when we ›obey the rule blindly.‹ I ask ›What do I do when I disobey the rules blindly?‹ My first husband was too old for me; my second husband was too young for me. When offered a scholarship at the pretentious Mills College, I went to Manhattan and danced in nightclubs. When pregnant I went to Paris. Was I breaking social rules or being a damned fool? In 1980, applying for a Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome, one juror criticized me vehemently as a dilettante because I was interdisciplinary. I won. Today you’ve got to mix it up. Modernism involves lots of rules yet Modernists are supposed to be original. In design school in Basel, Modernist Armin Hofmann taught that obedience to [his] design rules led to perfection. Painting supergraphics, in California, I stretched Armin’s rules bigger and bolder until I broke most of them into small pieces making 8 1/2x11” Plays on a Page while seeking unintended consequences.« Barbara Stauffacher Solomon This book is part of the Hall of Femmes series, books highlighting the work of outstanding women in art direction and design. Other titles in the series are: Ruth Ansel, Lillian Bassman, Carin Goldberg, Paula Scher, Tomoko Miho, Janet Froelich and Lella Vignelli.