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9780300126228

Alexander Calder : The Paris Years, 1926-1933

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300126228

  • ISBN10:

    0300126220

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2008-09-08
  • Publisher: The Whitney Museum of American Art
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Summary

In 1926, Alexander Calder (18981976) moved from New York to Paris and began to use time and motion as "materials" for animating line and space. Calder's years in Parisan understudied part of the artist's careeris the focus of this marvelous publication. A team of international scholars discusses Calder's many innovations of this period, chief among them his abstract, motorized, and mobile works. They analyze the extended cast of Calder's animatedCircus,made in Paris between 1926 and 1931, and include previously unpublished photographs by Brassai and Kertesz of Calder and this beloved performative sculpture. The essays critically explore the intellectual, cultural, and artistic milieu of Paris in the late 1920s and early 1930s and the contexts of Calder's friendships with Miro, Mondrian, Duchamp, and Man Ray, among others. What emerges in this fascinating book is a nuanced and detailed understanding of how Calder's distinctive career first took flight.

Author Biography

Joan Simon is curator at large for the Whitney Museum of American Art. She is the author of William Wegman: Funney/Strange (Yale), among many other publications on contemporary artists. Brigitte Léal is curator of historic collections at the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, and the author of many books on modern art.

Table of Contents

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Foreword
Alexander Calder: The Paris Years
Plates: Caricatures, Portraits, Figures
Calder the Illustrator: Corporeal Writing to Organic Sign
Plates: Animals, Toys, Circus
Calder as Artist-Engineer: Vectors, Velocities
The Search for Ubiquity: Calder and the Reproduction of His Works, 1927-32
Calder's Once and Future Circus: A Conservator's Perspective
The Alchemist: Alexander Calder and Surrealism
Parisian Metamorphosis in Four Acts
Painting and Working in the Abstract: Calder's Oeuvre and Constructive Art
Plates: Abstraction
Chronology
Works in the Exhibition
Selected Exhibition History
Selected Bibliography
Lenders to the Exhibition
Index
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