• monograph
  • cloth boards with dust jacket
  • offset-printed
  • sewn bound
  • black-and-white
  • 29 x 22 cm.
  • 302 pp.
  • edition size unknown
  • unsigned and unnumbered
  • ISBN 0521330386

Alexander Calder

[Hardcover Edition]

Alexander Calder, Joan M. Marter

description

"Alexander Calder by Joan Marter is the first comprehensive assessment of one of the greatest innovators of twentieth century art. The son and grandson of acclaimed American public sculptors, Calder was trained in engineering and sciences. His inherited penchant for monumental sculpture and the interest in kinetics that resulted from his education were important stimuli to his creation, during the 1930s, of the mobile and stabile, two forms of sculpture that synonymous with modern art. As Marter makes clear, Calder's innovations fuse the modernist tenets formulated by the School of Paris during the first decades of the twentieth century with a variety of other sources, including Bauhaus theatre and ballet design, American folk art, constructivist principles, and Dada-surrealist concepts. Profoundly international, his work defies categorization within a defined formalist school or on national grounds. Extensively illustrated with works by the artist as well as important sources for his output, Alexander includes unpublished visual documentation that sheds new light on his creative achievements." -- from interior flap. Includes list of illustrations, exhibition history, selected bibliography, and index. Printed in black-and-white.

Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press,
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