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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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Illustré de 147 photographies légendées en couleurs et noir et blanc sur papier couché Texte en français 224 p 1 kg 100 gr
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First edition Softcover 24 pages Exhibition catalog for a show that ran November 21 1992 through January 31 1993 Features a foreword by Kevin E Consey and an essay by Lynne Warren Includes numerous color illustrations A clean near fine copy in stapled wrappers
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The most authoritative history of the sculpture of Thailand ever to appear The Sacred Sculpture of Thailand examines 100 objects from a collection unparalleled outside Thailand Many years in the making the book has been coauthored by a team of conservation scientists who have carried out pathbreaking technical analyses The EreEsult is an entirely fresh and uptodate account of the history of sculpture in Thailand
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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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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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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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PaperbackWidth 30 cm Height 28cm 82 pages English text
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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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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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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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The striking mobile sculptures of Alexander Calder are among the most notable and original creations of twentiethcentury art Combining for the first time movement and sculpture these works represent a new and highly influential departure from the practices of the past Yet Calders work ranges much more widely This lavishly illustrated book reflects the full diversity of Calders oeuvre and explores an outstanding selection of more than two hundred of his worksBased on access to family archives an overview of Calders entire career and contributions from the artists grandson Alexander S C Rower this book for the first time presents the artist in a serious light and proper historical contextWithout ignoring the playful and whimsical dimension of his work the book emphasizes Calders role as one of the great formal innovators of the century Each work of art selected from those produced during his prolific career is reproduced here in color and is accompanied by compar
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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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