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Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The concluding volume of the first authorized biography of one of the most important, influential, and beloved of 20th century sculptors, and one of the greatest artists in the cultural history of America--a vividly written, illuminating account of his triumphant later years. The concluding 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 the stream of...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Alexander Calder 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 Calder's letters and papers as well as scores of interviews. Jed Perl shows...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Alexander Calder is the definitive portrait of the inventor of the mobile. This acclaimed film shows Alexander Calder at work in his studio, and features never-before-seen archival films and photographs. It includes contemporary shooting of dozens of works, seen as he meant them to be viewed, in dynamic motion.
12) Alexander Calder
Author
Publisher
Children's Press
Pub. Date
[1998]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 1
Lexile measure
840L
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and work of the twentieth-century artist Alexander Calder, famous for creating the moving sculptures known as mobiles.
13) Calder/Miro
Publisher
Philip Wilson Publishers in collaboration with the Philipps Collection and Fondation Beyeler
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
14) The Calder game
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
When seventh-grader Calder Pillay disappears from a remote English village--along with an Alexander Calder sculpture to which he has felt strangely drawn--his friends Petra and Tommy fly from Chicago to help his father find him.
15) Alexander Calder
Publisher
Fox Lorber Associates, Inc
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A portrait of one of the pre-eminent artists of the 20th century, and the inventor of an art form, the mobile. Shows Calder at work in his studio, includes archival films and photographs, and features interviews with contemporaries.