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Calder Alexander
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.
Sandy's Circus: A Story About Alexander Calder
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As a boy, Alexander ?Sandy? Calder was always fiddling with odds and ends, making objects for friends. When he got older and became an artist, his fiddling led him to create wire sculptures. One day, Sandy made a lion. Next came a lion cage. Before he knew it, he had an entire circus and was traveling between Paris and New York performing a brand-new kind of art for amazed audiences. This is the story of Sandy?s Circus, as told by Tanya Lee Stone with Boris Kulikov?s spectacular and innovative illustrations. Calder?s original circus is on permanent display at the Whitney Museum in New York City.
Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy
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The first publication to explore Calder’s significance for artists who emerged in the mid-1990s and the early twenty-first century. Alexander Calder, a legendary and beloved figure in American art, has not generally been considered a major influence on contemporary artists. Yet as the twenty-first century unfolds, many artists are taking cues from Calder’s hands-on investigations of form, balance, color, and movement as well as from his foresight in what we now refer to as the creative reuse of materials. These artists are returning to explorations of structure and balance, creating expressive artworks that celebrate the visual over the intellectual experience. Drawn from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago’s in-depth holdings of Calder’s work and augmented by the artist’s classic mobiles, standing mobiles, and stabiles from private and public collections, this pioneering consideration of Calder’s influence includes works by some of today’s most interesting and engaging sculptors: Martin Boyce, Nathan Carter, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Aaron Curry, Kristi Lippire, Jason Meadows, and Jason Middlebrook. The book features new scholarship on Calder’s creative reuse of materials by noted expert Brooke Kamin Rapaport. Scholar George Baker evaluates how the modern era in general and Calder in particular have influenced young sculptors. Exhibition organizer Lynne Warren contributes an overview of current sculptural practices in relation to Calder’s work.There are also contributions by Bryan Granger, Dominic Molon, Diana Nawi, and Julie Rodrigues Wildholm. 113 color and 21 black-and-white photographs
Alexander Calder and His Magical Mobiles
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-- In 95 illustrations Calder's mobiles are presented not just as studies of motion, but as vehicles for the artist's great playfulness and humor --Includes a guide to many of the Calder works that can be seen in museums and public spaces around the world Alexander Calder is surely the most beloved artist of the twentieth century, as well as a major figure in the history of modern sculpture. Calder invented the mobile and the stabile; he was endlessly creative at making drawings, jewelry, toys, and household objects; his miniature circus, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is treasured by children of all ages. Calder has been appreciated as much for his witty and playful personality as for his artistic achievement. Aspects of both the man and the work are captured in this beautifully produced book created to be especially accessible for young readers. Alexander Calder and His Magical Mobiles tells the story of Calder's life and career, and relates, often in the artist's own words, his working methods and his own feelings about his art. The publication presents a treasury of favorite works by Calder, as well as fascinating photographs of the artist in his studio. There is also a sequence of photographs that can be flipped to show a mobile in motion. Jean Lipman, was the editor of Art in America magazine for thirty years, then Editor of Publications at the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Learning from the Masters The Art of Mobiles with Alexander Calder
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Learning from the Masters is a series of mini lessons which teaches through fun hands on activities an appreciation for our most famous artists. Alexander Calder is featured including a biography, fun facts for kids, suggested reading, u tube videos, internet sites, as well as beginner, intermediate, and advanced activities. High stakes testing skills can be improved through reading aloud, studying the vocabulary, and following directions--art as a backdoor approach to teaching these learning skills. Activities designed for PRESCHOOL THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL.
Learning from the Masters is a series of mini lessons which teaches through fun hands on activities an appreciation for our most famous artists. Alexander Calder is featured including a biography, fun facts for kids, suggested reading, u tube videos, internet sites, as well as beginner, intermediate, and advanced activities. High stakes testing skills can be improved through reading aloud, studying the vocabulary, and following directions--art as a backdoor approach to teaching these learning skills. Activities designed for PRESCHOOL THROUGH HIGH SCHOOL.
The Surreal Calder
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Alexander Calder (1898-1976) is a key presence in the history of modern art, and yet he is rarely seen or remembered in the context from which he initially emerged as an artist. When Calder became "Calder" – well known for his signature mobiles and stabiles – it was due to a unique variety of presiding influences. His artistic parentage consisted of Marcel Duchamp, who provided the name of and concept for the mobile; Piet Mondrian, who introduced pure abstraction to him; and Joan Miró, who communicated the central theses of Surrealism. Although Calder went on to play a major role in Surrealist manifestations during the formative years of the movement, including being shown in the defining 1936 "Exposition surréaliste d'objets" in Paris, he has since been separated from those beginnings. Indeed, at this point in time, Calder is never included in exhibitions of Surrealist art, even though he was incubated by that phenomenon and contributed mightily to it.
This book will put the artist back in midst of Surrealism so that his achievement is more profoundly understood within that context. Works by artists such as Miró, Max Ernst, Yves Tanguy, and René Magritte will delineate the Surrealist milieu and some of its chief aspects. The following theses are also explored: Calder's wit, caricature, and linear flights of fancy; his marvelous personages and fantastic creatures; biomorphic forms from an imaginary vision of nature; and his constellations, apparent views of celestial space.
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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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