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An insightful new look at one of the 20th centurys most celebrated artistic visionaries Alexander Calder 18981976 is one of modernisms most captivating and influential figures First trained as a mechanical engineer Calder relocated from New York to Paris in the midtwenties where his acceptance into the citys burgeoning avantgarde circles coincided with the development of his characteristic form of kinetic sculpture His early work Cirque Calder which was presented throughout Paris to great acclaim prefigures the performance and theatrical aspects that dominate Calders pioneering artistic works and are situated as a primary subject of intrigue in this publication nbsp Rather than simply refashion sculptures traditional forms Calder envisioned entirely new possibilities for the medium and transformed its static nature into something dynamic and responsive Alexander Calder Performing Sculpture provides detailed insight into that pioneering process through reproductions of personal drawings and notes Also featured is new research from a wide range of renowned scholars furthering our understanding of the remarkable depth of Calders beloved mobile sculptures and entrenching his status as an icon of modernismnbsp
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An insightful new look at one of the 20th centurys most celebrated artistic visionaries Alexander Calder 18981976 is one of modernisms most captivating and influential figures First trained as a mechanical engineer Calder relocated from New York to Paris in the midtwenties where his acceptance into the citys burgeoning avantgarde circles coincided with the development of his characteristic form of kinetic sculpture His early work Cirque Calder which was presented throughout Paris to great acclaim prefigures the performance and theatrical aspects that dominate Calders pioneering artistic works and are situated as a primary subject of intrigue in this publication nbsp Rather than simply refashion sculptures traditional forms Calder envisioned entirely new possibilities for the medium and transformed its static nature into something dynamic and responsive Alexander Calder Performing Sculpture provides detailed insight into that pioneering process through reproductions of personal drawings and notes Also featured is new research from a wide range of renowned scholars furthering our understanding of the remarkable depth of Calders beloved mobile sculptures and entrenching his status as an icon of modernismnbsp
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This absorbing volume is the first account of an important twentieth century artistss sculptural progression from his figurative wire sculptures and abstract mobiles to his monumental public works In size medium and conception Calders work is amazingly varied
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Multum in Parvo highlights the complex relationship between scale and size in the oeuvre of Alexander Calder 18981976 over a period of more than 30 yearsAs its titletranslating to much in littleimplies the volume features over 40 rare smallscale sculptures ranging from the size of a thumb to 30 inches tall all of which feature the same physical qualities as Calders largest mobiles in the most miniature of detailIn addition to archival material installation photography of the sculptures in the environment designed for them by architects Santiago and Gabriel Calatrava and original architectural sketches the book also includes commissioned essays by Jed Perl art historian and author currently at work on the first fulllength biography of Alexander Calder and Paul Goldberger Pulitzer Prizewinning architecture critic as well as poems by Karl Shapiro and John Updike
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Une rétrospective composée dune centaine doeuvres dédiée au sculpteur américain et au caractère novateur de son art contre la sculpture traditionnelle Douze essais explorent les sources dinspiration de lartiste ainsi que les techniques dont il usa dans de nombreuses disciplines
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Examines the life and work of the twentiethcentury artist Alexander Calder famous for creating the moving sculptures known as mobiles
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Exhibition catalogue including an interview with Alexander SC Rower chronology exhibition history and bibliography Published by Van de Weghe Fine Art New York 2003 Hardcover 90 p fully illustrated
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In 1942 at the opening of her Art of This Century gallery Peggy Guggenheim famously demonstrated her equability toward both Surrealist and abstract art by wearing one earring made by Surrealist painter Yves Tanguy and one by abstract sculptor and kinetic artist Alexander Calder Yet the opposition implied by this act of trucemaking perhaps overstates the antimonies between these two modernist masters Tanguy and Calder shared many friends in Surrealist circles in Paris and showed work in the same exhibitions throughout the middle of the century In this beautiful volume full of color reproductions and important ephemera relating to the artists shared history Susan Davidson Senior Curator of collections and exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum in New York elucidates the overlap between these two canonical modernists
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Pedro Guerrero spent his entire career more than 60 years photographing houses of some of the most illustrious American architects and artists of the twentieth century Emerging from a modest background his first professional job at the age of twentytwo in 1939 was photographing Taliesin West the Arizona home of Frank Lloyd Wright For the next 20 years Guerrero was the chief visual interpreter of Wrights homes Guerrero was soon photographing houses belonging to such legendary artists and architects as Alexander Calder Louise Nevelson Marcel Breuer John Huston Philip Johnson Julia Child Edward Stone and Alexi Brodovitch Spanning nearly a century Pedro E Guerrero A Photographers Journey is a fascinating memoir illustrated with over 190 of the authors own photographs Guerrero steps out from behind the camera and for the first time tells his own story along with the stories of the contradictory and complex lives of the extraordinary people he has known including candid anecdotes about the personal quirks of some of Americas legendary magazine editors architects and artists
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Alexander Calder 1898 1976 is widely considered to be one of the most important American sculptors of the 20th century He is best known for his colorful whimsical abstract public sculptures and his innovative mobiles kinetic sculptures powered by motors or air currents which embraced chance in their aesthetic Born into a family of accomplished artists Calders work first gained attention in Paris in the 1930s and was soon championed by the Museum of Modern Art in New York resulting in a retrospective exhibition in 1943 Calders work is in many permanent collections most notably in the Whitney Museum of American Art but also the Guggenheim Museum the Museum of Modern Art the National Gallery of Art Washington DC and the Centre Georges Pompidou Although primarily known for his sculpture Calder was a prodigious artist with a restless creative spirit whose diverse practice included painting and printmaking miniatures such as his famous Cirque Calder childrens book illustrations theater set design jewelry design tapestries and rugs and political posters In addition to sculptures Calder painted throughout his career beginning in the early 1920s His many projects from this period include penandink line drawings of animals for a 1931 publication of Aesops fables As Calders sculpture moved into the realm of pure abstraction in the early 1930s so did his prints The thin lines used to define figures in the earlier prints and drawings began delineating groups of geometric shapes often in motion Calder also used prints for advocacy as in poster prints from 1967 and 1969 protesting the Vietnam War This book is from an exhibit entitled WILD WORK ANIMALS DRAWINGS BY ALEXANDER CALDER first held at the National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Wyoming from June 3 October 24 2004
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Multum in Parvo highlights the complex relationship between scale and size in the oeuvre of Alexander Calder 18981976 over a period of more than 30 yearsAs its titletranslating to much in littleimplies the volume features over 40 rare smallscale sculptures ranging from the size of a thumb to 30 inches tall all of which feature the same physical qualities as Calders largest mobiles in the most miniature of detailIn addition to archival material installation photography of the sculptures in the environment designed for them by architects Santiago and Gabriel Calatrava and original architectural sketches the book also includes commissioned essays by Jed Perl art historian and author currently at work on the first fulllength biography of Alexander Calder and Paul Goldberger Pulitzer Prizewinning architecture critic as well as poems by Karl Shapiro and John Updike
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Une rétrospective composée dune centaine doeuvres dédiée au sculpteur américain et au caractère novateur de son art contre la sculpture traditionnelle Douze essais explorent les sources dinspiration de lartiste ainsi que les techniques dont il usa dans de nombreuses disciplines
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When the final tally of key movers in the plastic arts of this century is compiled there is no doubt that maestro of movement Alexander Calder 18981976 the man who put the swing into sculpture will be near numero uno Calder took it off the plinth gave it to the wind and left us kinetic playgrounds of the spirit He operated at the point where Modernity and nature fused developing an environmental art that changed the medium forever Visiting his Paris atelier in 1932 Duchamp coined the term Mobiles for Calders delicate wire and disc pieces constructions that would soon become immensely popular But he didnt rest on his innovations Friends with Miro Mondrian and Leger Calder also turned his hand to painting drawing gouaches toys textiles and utensil design A graphic master who sketched as much in air as in ink the Sixties and Seventies saw Calder take on the monumental translating the dynamics of cities into both his Mobiles and Stabiles At a time when sculpture was perceived to be the antithesis of movement Calder unmade gravity and freed the elements in a body of work that is still sending a wind of change through the art world today Source httpwwwdailyiconnet200904bookscalder18981976
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This memoir was written about Americas greatest artist Alexander Calder and his whole family of artists by his only sibling Margaret Calder Hayes This is a touching and enriching story of how artistic talent was encouraged and fostered within the Calder family Peggy Hayes wrote this book while in her 80s She reflects on the important aspects of her life with brother Sandy her father Alexander Sterling Calder and mother Nanette Lederer Calder a talented artist in her own right and her grandfather Alexander Milne Calder As an octogenarian her perspective is expecially valuable
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In 1926 Alexander Calder 1898 1976 moved from New York to Paris and began to use time and motion as materials for animating line and space Calders years in Paris an understudied part of the artists career is the focus of this marvelous publicationnbspA team of international scholars discusses Calders many innovations of this period chief among them his abstract motorized and mobile works They analyze the extended cast of Calders animated Circus made in Paris between 1926 and 1931 and include previously unpublished photographs by Brassaï and Kertesz of Calder and this beloved performative sculpture The essays critically explore the intellectual cultural and artisticnbspmilieu of Paris in the late 1920s andnbspearly 1930s and the contexts of Calders friendships with Miró Mondrian Duchamp and Man Ray among others What emerges in this fascinating book is a nuanced and detailed understanding of how Calders distinctivenbspcareer first took flightnbsp
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This study now published in paperback provides the most complete scholarly account yet published of the life and work of Alexander Calder The son and grandson of acclaimed public sculptors Calder was trained as an engineer Working in Europe during the 1920s he was exposed to a range of avantgarde art including Cubism Dada and Surrealism Constructivism and works created at the Bauhaus These sources together with Calders abiding interest in American folk art were fundamental to the evolution of his wood and wire sculptures which fundamentally challenged the principles of Western sculpture established in antiquity Calders creation of the mobile and stabile two forms of sculpture that are synonymous with modernism is also analysed in detail Including a new plate section and 170 halftones many published here for the first time Marters book is an absorbing study of Calders special contribution to twentiethcentury art and culture
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Alexander Calder 18981976 was a radical inventor an artist who discarded convention and disrupted hierarchies overturning the traditional basis of culture while revolutionizing the way people perceive and interact with art Calders new line was not simply an evolution of forms and styles From the start it was quite clear to all who witnessed him at work that in his way of drawing attention and gaining notoriety he was doing something radically new This catalogue shows how Calders work emerged from expectations of change in American popular culture Calder who was initially attracted by the structure and functions of the circus looked for alternative models to triumph over respectability public decorum and the ambitions of industry The catalogue with twelve essays from major contributors will examine how Calder among the first collegetrained artists found techniques and inspiration in many disciplines and their development technology engineering architecture physics and astronomy among others All these contributed to the development of his wire sculptures mobiles and stabiles More than 100 works and comparative illustrations will guide the reader through this innovative and unique path
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From Publishers Weekly Many of Calders sculptures and objects documented in this irresistible album are closer to decorative art than are his monumental works yet that in no way diminishes their intrinsic interest His painted metallic fishes jostling with fragments of glass and ceramic shards seem almost mythical His ingenious kinetic birds capture motion on the wing Miniature mobiles delicately balanced microcosms prefigure the larger ones In jewelry design Calder was first and foremost a sculptor delving into ancient tribal and modern sources Also here are wire portraitsculptures toys stabiles paintings drawings as well as family photographs Marchesseau curator of the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris organized an international exhibit on which this biographicalcritical study is based The book is an intimate unstuffy look at an artist who merged seriousness and playfulness in ways that expunged divisions between high and low art Apr
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This handsome book presents more than two hundred innovative works by the Alexander Calder who was the first to combine movement and sculpture Based on family archives it provides an overview of Calders entire career The book is the first to place the artist in a serious light and proper historical contextCatalogue of a major centenary exhibit that opens at the National Gallery of Art Washington DC and then travels to the San Francisco Museum of Modern ArtCopublished with the National Gallery of Art Washington DC
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