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Calder Alexander
Alexander Calder and His Magical Mobiles
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Delightful volume captures the beauty and spirit of a favorite American artist.
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An ideal guide to understanding the mobile
Mobiles are a quaint and unique medium of art. "Alexander Calder and His Magical Mobiles" is the tale of mobile artist Alexander Calder, telling his life story and how he came into the field, but mostly focusing on the man's art. Drawing from Calder's own words much of the time, "Alexander Calder and His Magical Mobiles" features many photographs of his work in black-and-white, as well as forty photographs in full color. An ideal guide to understanding the mobile, "Alexander Calder and His Magical Mobiles" is highly recommended.
2009-03-10
(Oregon, WI USA) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5
Just all right
Calder is my favorite artist ever. This book captures many of his different styles of works, but it needs photos of his standing mobiles, such as Little Parasite. The book has only a couple photos of unspectacular standing mobiles.
2000-03-11
| Boldness character excellence (Cincinnati, Ohio) | Helpful Votes: 27 | Rating: 3
Alexander Calder: Sculptures
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Ugo Mulas and Alexander Calder. A great photographer and a great artist bound by close friendship. The visible fruit of this relationship are the hundreds of photographs of the histrionic American artist, his family, his works, and his houses in Roxbury (USA) and Sache (France) taken by Mulas: a 'family album that showed the love for his work and the joy that his friendship gave me'. The carefully selected photographs presented, edited by Melina, Ugo Mulas' daughter and a well known photographer in her own right, evidences the role of unspoken art critic played by Mulas.As Argan writes, the photographer was able to capture 'with incredible delicacy the genetic affinity between the works and their creator, and at the same time their intimate contradiction, as if the lightness of the sculptures atoned for the sculptor's heavy bulk and their capriciousness matched his kind-hearted, unpredictable character, the nature of which is expressed by the tufts of his white hair, ever tousled by a non-existent wind'.Born into a family of artists, Alexander Calder (1898-1976) showed right from his infancy an approach to the manipulation of materials that was to change the course of modern art. An outstanding inventor of wire caricatures and animals (see, for example, his famous Circus), at the start of the 1930s Calder developed into the construction of abstract sculptures in which he soon included moving pieces. These sculptures, which he called mobiles, are among the most famous artworks of the twentieth century. In them, Calder 'took matter and transformed it into an image as light as a puff of air'. Ugo Mulas (1928-1973) was one of the greatest Italian photographers of the last century. His enormous interest in the world of art is attested by the photographs he took at the various Biennali in Venice between 1954 and 1972, and by his superlative recording of the art scene in New York, which he carried out in different stages between 1964 and 1967.
Alexander Calder, 1898-1976
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This handsome book presents more than two hundred innovative works by the Alexander Calder, who was the first to combine movement and sculpture. Based on family archives, it provides an overview of Calder`s entire career. The book is the first to place the artist in a serious light and proper historical context. Catalogue of a major centenary exhibit that opens at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., and then travels to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Copublished with the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The early work of any artist is often startling, and Alexander Calder's is particularly so. We think of Calder's sculpture as the epitome of crisp, Modernist forms--sometimes moving gently, as the mobiles and stabiles do. And we think of his paintings as filled with abstracted, biomorphic shapes. But the 1998 Calder retrospective showed that this American in Paris between the world wars began as a specialist in smoky nocturnes. This book, the catalog of that exhibition, carries Calder past all that, to 1930, when he was "shocked" into complete abstraction, as he said, by a visit to the studio of Piet Mondrian. The rest of the book details the development of an oeuvre, including bent-wire toys, carnival figures, and circus acrobats, that made Calder among the best-loved of 20th-century artists. It contains pictures of Calder and his beautiful wife Luisa, at home and in the studio in Connecticut and France, and 267 full-color plates of Calder's drawings, sculptures, and paintings. The chronology is interspersed with the chapter essays, which can be somewhat confusing, at first, for readers who like to jump to the back of the book looking for the time line. It is well worth it to slow down for Marla Prather's readable, instructive text, which is filled with quotes from Calder and his contemporaries, and for Alexander S.C. Rower's remarkable chronology, which includes even the Calders' 1972 New York Times advertisement calling for the impeachment of Richard M. Nixon. With great economy, Rower covers every event of importance, in Calder's art and in his life. --Peggy Moorman
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Caulder 5 stars, Publication 5 stars, Writing Style 3.
Calders work leaves me speachless and in its place... inspired, to do more, better. The book(hardcover)itself is beautifully bound and constructed of the highest quality materials, making it a delight to page through. The writing style is rigid and impersonal. Perhaps the author was careful to provide a neutral background for the colorful, animated genius of Calder but it lacks rhythym, speed and ease of use. I loved the tactile experience of the book itself and of course, Calder for his fresh, brilliant and prolific inventiveness.
1998-08-27
| 1-catfancier (Honolulu, Hawaii) | Helpful Votes: 13 | Rating: 4
Alexander Calder
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A complete book on Calder's works, paintings, jewellery and his huge sculptures.
Fables of Aesop According to Sir Roger L'Estrange, with Fifty Drawings by Alexander Calder
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Rare 1931 Paris limited edition of Sir Roger l’Estrange translation, with 50 original drawings by Calder. 201 traditional fables in finest English rendition (17th cen.) beautifully complemented by Calder. "... a charming paperback facsimile ... wonderfully inventive drawings make a delightful, modern counterpoint..."—Saturday Review.
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Fun - Calder drawings
This was a fun little book. I bought it for the Calder drawings and was not disappointed.
2008-06-09
| Art book lover (Modesto,CA USA) | Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 4
Calder, 1898-1976 (Album Series)
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When the final tally of key movers in the plastic arts of this century is compiled, there is no doubt that maestro of movement Alexander Calder (1898-1976), the man who put the swing into sculpture, will be near numero uno. Calder took it off the plinth, gave it to the wind, and left us kinetic playgrounds of the spirit. He operated at the point where Modernity and nature Fused, developing an environmental art that changed the medium Forever. Visiting his Paris atelier in 1932, Duchamp coined the term "Mobiles" For Calder's delicate wire and disc pieces, constructions that would soon become immensely popular. But he didn't rest on his innovations. Friends with Miro, Mondrian and Leger, Calder also turned his hand to painting, drawing, gouaches, toys, textiles and utensil design. A graphic master who sketched as much in air as in ink, the Sixties and Seventies saw Calder take on the monumental, translating the dynamics of cities into both his Mobiles and "Stabiles". At a time when sculpture was perceived to be the antithesis of movement, Calder unmade gravity and freed the elements in a body of work that is still sending a wind of change through the art world today.
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Alexander Calder
This is a wonderful little book. It is a great resource on Calder. I volunteer at our local grade school as an art docent and shared this book with my classes for our Alexander Calder mobile projects. The students were impressed. The quality of the photos is first rate and the text is informative.
2008-06-16
(Rathdrum, ID United States) | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 5
Alexander Calder
This book is an excellent piece of work. Expertly written and illustrated with an array of beatifully taken colour photographs. This book is a must have for any fan of Calder's work. Superb.
2003-03-21
(England) | Helpful Votes: 7 | Rating: 5
Calder Alexander News
San Diego Museum of Art Hosts Only West Coast Viewing of Calder ... - Art Daily
Art Daily, Maine - May 23, 2009
San Diego Museum of Art Hosts Only West Coast Viewing of Calder For the first time, jewelry created by the great American sculptor Alexander Calder is the subject of a comprehensive exhibition entitled Calder Jewelry. This special exhibition will be on view at the San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA) from July 25,
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The Way They Were: A Trio of Masterly Memoirs - Washington Post
Washington Post, United States - May 24, 2009
Washington PostThe Way They Were: A Trio of Masterly MemoirsVarda's "The Beaches of Agnès" is indeed about Agnès Varda, but Varda's life is so long and rich, and intersects with so many famous people -- Alexander Calder, Jim Morrison, Harrison Ford -- and so many critical social upheavals, that it is as much a
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Taking an option on a masterpiece - Toronto Star
Toronto Star, Canada - May 23, 2009
Taking an option on a masterpieceFor example, if an organization has a high-priced acquisition that's losing its crowd appeal – we could be talking equally about an Alexander Calder kinetic mobile or Yankee slugger Alex Rodriguez – then a sale might be the best way to provide the cash
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Alexander Calder's 1964 'Hello Girls' back on view at LACMA - Los Angeles Times Blogs
Los Angeles Times Blogs, CA - May 12, 2009
Alexander Calder's 1964 'Hello Girls' back on view at LACMAJust in time for jacaranda season, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has completed initial repairs on Alexander Calder's 1964 standing-mobile fountain "Hello Girls." Commissioned by a women's museum-support group when LACMA first opened on Wilshire
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Bad times, good deals - Washington Times
Washington Times, DC - May 20, 2009
Express from The Washington PostBad times, good dealsBy Gabriella Boston (Contact) | Wednesday, May 20, 2009 Would you like to visit a place where you're surrounded - all free of charge - by Alexander Calder's "Red Horse," trees, lawns, a fountain and last, but not least, the syncopated rhythms of live Hitting the Right Note: Jazz in the Sculpture Garden
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Calder Foundation
View examples of Alexander Calder's work, including mobiles, stabiles, standing mobiles, and wire sculptures, and learn about Calder's life and foundation.
Alexander Calder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His father, Alexander Stirling Calder, was a well-known sculptor who created ... Alexander Calder, The Crab, painted steel, 1962, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston ...
Alexander Calder: Biography from Answers.com
Alexander Calder ( b Philadelphia, PA, 22 July 1898; d New York, 11 Nov 1976) ... Alexander Calder was born in Philadelphia, the son of a well-known sculptor and ...
Alexander Calder - Artcyclopedia
Links to museum holdings, image archives, and other online resources about the kinetic artist.
Alfred Stieglitz - The Eloquent Eye | American Masters | PBS
Alexander Calder's prolific and passionate output brought with it a humor and sense of play unlike any before, redefining what art could be.
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