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Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years 1898-1940; Calder: The Conquest of Space: The Later Years 1940-1976 (2 volumes)

Door Jed Pearl

Categorie	Algemeen Kunst
Boeknummer	#323280-XB16
Titel	Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years 1898-1940; Calder: The Conquest of Space: The Later Years 1940-1976 (2 volumes)
Auteur	Pearl, Jed
Boektype	Gebonden hardcover met stofomslag
Uitgeverij	New York : Alfred A. Knopf
Jaar van uitgave	2017
ISBN10	0307272729
ISBN13	9780307272720
Taal	Engels
Beschrijving	2 uniform volumes with original black boards, silver lettered spines, dust jacket, 2017-2020, illustrations in colour and b/w, 687+669 pages, large 8vo. ISBN 1) 9780307272720; ISBN 2) 9780451494115.
Samenvatting	Volume 1) Recounts the life and accomplishments of the American sculptor, from his early years studying engineering and his first artistic triumphs in Paris to his emergence as a leader in the abstract avant-garde movement. Volume 2) The concluding volume to the first biography of one of the most important, influential, and beloved twentieth-century sculptors, and one of the greatest artists in the cultural history of America--is a vividly written, illuminating account of his triumphant later years. The second and final volume of this magnificent biography begins during World War II, when Calder--known to all as Sandy--and his wife, Louisa, opened their home to a stream of artists and writers in exile from Europe. In the postwar decades, they divided their time between the United S... (Lees verder)tates and France, as Calder made his first monumental public sculptures and received blockbuster commissions that included Expo '67 in Montreal and the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. Jed Perl makes clear how Calder's radical sculptural imagination shaped the minimalist and kinetic art movements that emerged in the 1960s. And we see, as well, that through everything--their ever-expanding friendships with artists and writers of all stripes; working to end the war in Vietnam; hosting riotous dance parties at their Connecticut home; seeing the "mobile," Calder's essential artistic invention, find its way into Webster's dictionary--Calder and Louisa remained the risk-taking, singularly bohemian couple they had been since first meeting at the end of the Roaring Twenties. The biography ends with Calder's death in 1976 at the age of seventy-eight--only weeks after an encyclopedic retrospective of his work opened at the Whitney Museum in New York--but leaves us with a new, clearer understanding of his legacy, both as an artist and a man.
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