Alexander Calder And His Magical Mobiles

Author : Jean Lipman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alexander Calder and His Magical Mobiles written by Jean Lipman and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alexander Calder is surely the most beloved artist of the twentieth century - as well as a major figure in the history of modern sculpture. Calder invented the mobile and the stabile; he was endlessly creative at making drawings, jewellery, toys, and household objects; he even made a miniature circus that is treasured by children of all ages. Calder has been appreciated as much for his witty and playful personality as for his artistic genius. Now aspects of both the man and the artist are captured in a beautifully produced book, created to be especially accessible for young readers. Alexander Calder and His Magical Mobiles with its delightful text tells the story of Calder's life and career, and relates - often in the artist's own words - his working methods and his own feelings about his art. The publication also presents a treasury of favourite works by Calder, as well as fascinating photographs of the artist at work. There is also a sequence of photographs that can be flipped to show a mobile in motion. AUTHOR: Jean Lipman, an authority on American art and modern sculpture is a long-time friend of Calder and his family and has collected his work for many years. Mrs Lipman is the author three Calder books and was the editor of Art in America magazine for thirty years, then following that she was editor of publications at the Whitney Museum of American Art. SELLING POINTS: *In 95 illustrations Calder's sculptures are presented as studies of motion, which also depict his playfulness and humour *Includes a guide to many of the Calder sculptures that can be seen in museums and public spaces around the world ILLUSTRATIONS: 40 colour & 55 b/w illustrations

Author : Jed Perl
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307272729
Total Pages : 705 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calder: The Conquest of Time written by Jed Perl and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 705 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder: an authoritative and revelatory achievement, based on a wealth of letters and papers never before available, and written by one of our most renowned art critics. Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved and widely admired artists of the twentieth century. Anybody who has ever set foot in a museum knows him as the inventor of the mobile, America's unique contribution to modern art. But only now, forty years after the artist's death, is the full story of his life being told in this biography, which is based on unprecedented access to Calder's letters and papers as well as scores of interviews. Jed Perl shows us why Calder was--and remains--a barrier breaker, an avant-garde artist with mass appeal. This beautifully written, deeply researched book opens with Calder's wonderfully peripatetic upbringing in Philadelphia, California, and New York. Born in 1898 into a family of artists--his father was a well-known sculptor, his mother a painter and a pioneering feminist--Calder went on as an adult to forge important friendships with a who's who of twentieth-century artists, including Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp, Georges Braque, and Piet Mondrian. We move through Calder's early years studying engineering to his first artistic triumphs in Paris in the late 1920s, and to his emergence as a leader in the international abstract avant-garde. His marriage in 1931 to the free-spirited Louisa James--she was a great-niece of Henry James--is a richly romantic story, related here with a wealth of detail and nuance. Calder's life takes on a transatlantic richness, from New York's Greenwich Village in the Roaring Twenties, to the Left Bank of Paris during the Depression, and then back to the United States, where the Calders bought a run-down old farmhouse in western Connecticut. New light is shed on Calder's lifelong interest in dance, theater, and performance, ranging from the Cirque Calder, the theatrical event that became his calling card in bohemian Paris to collaborations with the choreographer Martha Graham and the composer Virgil Thomson. More than 350 illustrations in color and black-and-white--including little-known works and many archival photographs that have never before been seen--further enrich the story.

Author : Jean Lipman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780933920187
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alexander Calder and His Magical Mobiles written by Jean Lipman and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Delightful volume captures the beauty and spirit of a favorite American artist.

Author : Blue Balliett
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
ISBN 13 : 0545279135
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Calder Game written by Blue Balliett and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new mystery from bestselling author Blue Balliett is now available in After Words paperback!When Calder Pillay travels with his father to a remote village in England, he finds a mix of mazes and mystery . . . including an unexpected Alexander Calder sculpture in the town square. Calder is strangely drawn to the sculpture, while other people have less-than-friendly feelings towards it. Both the boy and the sculpture seem to be out of place . . . and then, on the same night, they disappear! Calder's friends Petra and Tommy must fly out to help his father find him. But this mystery has more twists and turns than a Calder mobile . . . with more at stake than first meets the eye.

Author : A. S. C. Rower
Publisher : Universe Publishing(NY)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 86 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calder Sculpture written by A. S. C. Rower and published by Universe Publishing(NY). This book was released on 1998 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To mark the centenary of Alexander Calder's birth, this absorbing volume is the first account of this important artist's sculptural progression--from his figurative wire sculptures and abstract mobiles to his monumental public works. Images of Calder's pioneering pieces, along with rarely seen archival photos, illuminate an amazing body of work marked by tremendous diversity of size, medium, and conception. 64 photos.

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Publisher : Stewart, Tabori, & Chang
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calder at Home written by and published by Stewart, Tabori, & Chang. This book was released on 1998 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With photographs of Calder and his wife, Louisa, in their homes in Roxbury, Connecticut, and Saché, France, taken from 1963 to 1976, "Calder at Home shows how Calder extended his unbounded creativity and enthusiasm to every corner of his existence, from living room hearth to dining table, from kitchen to bathroom, from studio ceiling to studio floor."--Jacket.

Author : Tanya Lee Stone
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0670062685
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sandy's Circus written by Tanya Lee Stone and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2008-09-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a boy, Alexander ?Sandy? Calder was always fiddling with odds and ends, making objects for friends. When he got older and became an artist, his fiddling led him to create wire sculptures. One day, Sandy made a lion. Next came a lion cage. Before he knew it, he had an entire circus and was traveling between Paris and New York performing a brand-new kind of art for amazed audiences. This is the story of Sandy?s Circus, as told by Tanya Lee Stone with Boris Kulikov?s spectacular and innovative illustrations. Calder?s original circus is on permanent display at the Whitney Museum in New York City.

Author : Timothy Rose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781425988579
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Making Creative Mobiles written by Timothy Rose and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "If you have looked at a painting and wondered what it might be like to be inside it, or wondered what it would be like to see it move, imagined what it would be to have a picture "play back" its story to the viewer, changing over time, that is what mobiles are about. When I discovered mobiles, I felt at home. Perhaps I can impart some of this enthusiasm to you. Movement attracts the eye. We are hard-wired as a species as hunters. We have the hunting instinct of seeking movement and detail from the environment. Mobiles with their inherent eye-catching quality of movement are a natural to grab our attention"--Back of book.

Author : Stephanie Barron
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 214 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Calder and Abstraction written by Stephanie Barron and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2013-11-22 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Published in conjunction with the exhibition Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California (November 24, 2013-July 6, 2014). This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in cooperation with the Calder Foundation, New York"--Colophon.

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Publisher : Dominique Levy Gallery
ISBN 13 : 9780986060656
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alexander Calder written by and published by Dominique Levy Gallery. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Multum in Parvohighlights the complex relationship between scale and size in the oeuvre of Alexander Calder (1898-1976) over a period of more than 30 years. As its title--translating to "much in little"--implies, the volume features over 40 rare small-scale sculptures, ranging from the size of a thumb to 30 inches tall, all of which feature the same physical qualities as Calder's largest mobiles in the most miniature of detail. In 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 full-length biography of Alexander Calder, and Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic, as well as poems by Karl Shapiro and John Updike.