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Calder Alexander
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
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A treasury for modern art enthusiasts
Featuring 137 illustrations (110 of which are in color) of modern sculptures and artworks from the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form Balance Joy is an extraordinary portrayal of Calder's creations and the creations of those touched by his exquisite taste for balancing form, color, and movement, as well as his penchant for inventively reusing materials. Although Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art is primarily a visual showcase, the text supplements the illustrations with detailed musings on not only Calder's works themselves, but also how they influenced other modern-day artists, including Martin Boyce, Nathan Carter, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Aaron Curry, Kristi Lippire, Jason Meadows, and Jason Middlebrook. A treasury for modern art enthusiasts, Calder and Contemporary Art is the next best thing to visiting the Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art in person.
2010-08-09
(Oregon, WI USA) | Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5
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
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
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Alexander Calder: The Paris Years, 1926-1933 (Whitney Museum of American Art)
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In 1926, Alexander Calder (1898–1976) moved from New York to Paris and began to use time and motion as "materials" for animating line and space. Calder’s years in Paris––an understudied part of the artist’s career––is 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 animated Circus, made in Paris between 1926 and 1931, and include previously unpublished photographs by Brassaï 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 Miró, 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. (20081026)
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The Artistic Genius of Alexander Calder's Paris Years.
Alexander Calder (1898-1976) was an American sculptor and artist, perhaps best known for inventing the mobile. He moved from New York to Paris in 1926, where he established a studio in the Montparnasse Quarter. His articulated toys (particularly the "Cirque Calder") constructed from wire, string, rubber, cloth, and other found objects became popular with the Parisian avant-garde. Soon he had become a central figure of the Modern movement.
Many of his abstract, motorized, and mobile figures are represented in this impressive collection of works from Calder's years in Paris, 1926 to 1931. Simon and Leal are curators at the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the Pompidou Center, respectively, and their charming book collects eight essays which examine Calder as illustrator, surrealist and abstractionist; the intellectual, cultural, and artistic milieu of Paris at the time; Calder's friendships with Miró, Mondrian, Duchamp, and Man Ray; and the significance of Calder's Circus. This entertaining collection will appeal to adults and children alike.
G. Merritt
2008-11-28
(Boulder, CO) | Helpful Votes: 4 | Rating: 5
Alexander Calder and Joan Miro
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Alexander Calder and His Magical Mobiles, 5th Reprint
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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: 28 | Rating: 3
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
Alexander Calder (July 22, 1898 – November 11, 1976) was an American sculptor and artist most famous for ... Alexander (Sandy) Calder was born in Lawnton, Pennsylvania, on July ...
Alexander Calder: Biography from Answers.com
Alexander Calder ( b Philadelphia, PA, 22 July 1898; d New York, 11 Nov 1976). Sculptor, painter, illustrator, printmaker and designer, son of (2)
Calder Foundation
Alexander Calder (1898-1976), whose illustrious career spanned much of the 20th century, is the most acclaimed and influential sculptor of our time.
Alexander Calder - Definition
Alexander Calder (July 22 1898 - November 11 1976), also known as Sandy Calder, was an ... In June 1922, Calder took a job as a fireman in the boiler room of ...
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