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Title: Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926-1933 (Whitney Museum of American Art)
ISBN: 0300126220
Author:
Joan Simon
Brigitte Leal
Publicate Date: 2008-09-08
Publish: 2008-09-08
List Price: $60.00
Average Customer Rating: 5.0
Format: Hardcover
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1: The Artistic Genius of Alexander Calder's Paris Years.
Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was an American sculptor and artist, perhaps best known for inventing the mobile. He moved from New York to Paris in 1926, where he established a studio in the Montparnasse Quarter. His articulated toys (particularly the "Cirque Calder") constructed from wire, string, rubber, cloth, and other found objects became popular with the Parisian avant-garde. Soon he had become a central figure of the Modern movement.
Many of his abstract, motorized, and mobile figures are represented in this impressive collection of works from Calder's years in Paris, 1926 to 1931. Simon and Leal are curators at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Pompidou Center, respectively, and their charming book collects eight essays which examine Calder as illustrator, surrealist and abstractionist; the intellectual, cultural, and artistic milieu of Paris at the time; Calder's friendships with Mir??, Mondrian, Duchamp, and Man Ray; and the significance of Calder's Circus. This entertaining collection will appeal to adults and children alike.
G. Merritt
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