Alexander Calder the Paris years, 1926-1933 /
"Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926-1933 follows Calder's progression from painter to sculptor in Paris in the 1920s and early 1930s - a unique and critically important period of artistic, cultural, social, and political dialogue between the United States and Paris."-Sponsor'...
| Main Author: | Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976. |
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| Other Authors: | Simon, Joan, 1949-, Léal, Brigitte., Whitney Museum of American Art., Centre Georges Pompidou. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
New York : Paris : New Haven :
Whitney Museum of American Art ; Centre Pomidou ; Yale University Press,
[2008]
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| Physical Description: |
304 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm. |
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| Online Access: |
Table of contents only |
| Summary: |
"Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926-1933 follows Calder's progression from painter to sculptor in Paris in the 1920s and early 1930s - a unique and critically important period of artistic, cultural, social, and political dialogue between the United States and Paris."-Sponsor's statement. |
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| Item Description: |
Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-293) and index. Alexander Calder : the Paris years / Joan Simon -- Plates : Caricatures, portraits, figures -- Calder the illustrator : corporeal writing to organic sign / Brigitte Leal -- Plates : Animals, toys, circus -- Calder as artist-engineer : vectors, velocities / Henry Petroski -- The search for ubiquity : Calder and the reproduction of his works, 1927-32 / Quentin Bajac -- Clader's once and future circus : a conservator's perspective / Eleonora Nagy with Carol Mancusi-Ungaro -- The alchemist : Alexander Calder and surrealism / Pepe Karmel -- Parisian metamorphosis in four acts / Annie Cohen-Solal -- Painting and working in the abstract : Calder's oeuvre and constructive art / Arnauld Pierre -- Plates : Abstraction -- Chronology / Alexander S.C. Rower. "Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926-1933 follows Calder's progression from painter to sculptor in Paris in the 1920s and early 1930s - a unique and critically important period of artistic, cultural, social, and political dialogue between the United States and Paris."-Sponsor's statement. |
| Physical Description: |
304 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm. |
| Bibliography: |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-293) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780300126228 0300126220 |