Calder Gravity & Grace

by Gimenez, Carmen; Rower, Alexander S C; Serraller, Francisco Calvo

• ISBN13: 9780714844107
• ISBN10: 0714844101
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-05-01
• Publisher: Phaidon Press

Summary

A beautifully produced monograph on one of the greatest sculptors of thewentieth century, comprising a critical essay, a superb selection of colourlates, and invaluable documentation of the artist's writings, interviews,ibliography and exhibition history. Trained as an engineer, Alexander Calderade his first sculpture when he was twenty-seven. Moving to Paris in 1926 heegan working abstractly in wire, wood and sheet metal, and his firstxhibition of mobiles (a term coined for his work by Marcel Duchamp) was heldhere in 1932. His works are characterized by their dynamism and oftenombine a huge sense of scale with movement and weightlessness. Calder hasecome world renowned for his enchanting biomorphic mobiles and oftenonumental non-moving stabiles. Calder: Gravity and Grace is a retrospectivef this major American sculptor, who during his lifetime, perhaps more thanny other artist, achieved popular acclaim as well as the art world's respect.The book includes works from his entire career, along with his own writings,nterviews with a range of art historians and friends and texts by authors

Author Biography

Carmen Giménez is Curator of Twentieth-Century Art, Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York.

Alexander S C Rower is Director of the Calder Foundation, New York.

Francisco Calvo Serraller is Professor of Art History at the Universidad Complutense, Madrid.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Calder : gravity and grace	p. 5
Selected texts by and about Calder	p. 41
Calder's writings and quotations	p. 47
Selections from Calder's autobiography	p. 57
Texts by other authors	p. 65
Interviews with Calder	p. 83
Plates	p. 105
List of plates	p. 178
Chronology	p. 187
Bibliography	p. 217
Exhibition history	p. 237
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