Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years, 1898-1940

Perl, Jed

ISBN 10: 0307272729 / ISBN 13: 9780307272720

Edité par Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, New York, 2017

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viii, 687 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Tiny remainder mark (ink dot)/tail edge. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. *** "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." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Prologue: "I was framed"; Philadelphia; Stirling and Nanette; Father and son; Pasadena; Croton-on-Hudson; The Panama-Pacific International Exposition; The Stevens Institute of Technology; Engineering; The Art Students League; Animal sketching; Paris; Cirque Calder; Wire sculpture; Rue Cels; Louisa James; Villa Brune; Mondrian's studio; Marriage; Volumes--Vecteurs--Densite s; Mobiles; Rue de la Colonie; Painter Hill Road; From Sandra to Socrate; A very good year; Mercury fountain; A London season; Turning forty; The classical style. Size: 8vo.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years, 1898-1940
• Éditeur: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, New York
• Date de parution: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0307272729
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780307272720
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Édition: 1st.
• État de l'article: Near Fine
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Media::Sculpture
  • Movements::Kinetic
  • New Books
  • USA::5. Modern, 1900-1945
  • XXX::COLLECTIBLES
  • XXL::Extra Extra Large

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Synopsis

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.

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JED PERL is a regular contributor to The New York Review of Books. He was the art critic for The New Republic for twenty years and a contributing editor to Vogue for a decade, and is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship. His previous books include Magicians and Charlatans, Antoine's Alphabet, and New Art City, which was a New York Times Notable Book and an Atlantic Book of the Year. He lives in New York City.