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Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940 / Jed Perl.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Woodbury Public Library | B CALDER (Text to phone) | 34018140172778 | Adult Biography | Available | - |
Record details
- ISBN: 0307272729
- ISBN: 9780307272720
- ISBN: 9780307272720
- ISBN: 0307272729
- ISBN: 9780307272720
- ISBN: 0307272729
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Physical Description:
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viii, 687 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm - Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 607-649) and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 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 <b class='oils_SH keyword toc'>Calder</b> -- Wire sculpture -- Rue Cels -- Louisa James -- Villa Brune -- Mondrian's studio -- Marriage -- Volumes--Vecteurs--Densités -- 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. |
Summary, etc.: | Alexander <b class='oils_SH keyword abstract'>Calder</b> 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 <b class='oils_SH keyword abstract'>Calder</b>'s letters and papers as well as scores of interviews. Jed Perl shows us why <b class='oils_SH keyword abstract'>Calder</b> was--and remains--a barrier breaker, an avant-garde artist with mass appeal. |
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Subject: | <b class='oils_SH subject complete'>Calder</b>, Alexander 1898-1976 Artists United States Biography Sculptors United States Biography |
Genre: | Biographies. |
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