Most of us at Persephone Books are not great ones for abstract art, just as we don't love super-modernist literature. But Sophie Taeuber-Arp's work is quite different. Animated Circles 1934 is so so different from mere circles on a bit of paper, it is superbly expressive – of what? As the Arts Desk says: 'In her hands, the simplest compositions sizzle with tension and dance with implied motion. Animated Circles consists of blue, grey and black circles on a white ground.