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Alexander Calder : performing sculpture

Title: Alexander Calder : performing sculpture / edited by Achim Borchardt-Hume ; with contributions by Ann Coxon [and seven others].
Author: Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976
Publication: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015.

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Description

233 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

Provides detailed insight into that pioneering process through reproductions of personal drawings and notes and new research from a wide range of renowned scholars, furthering our understanding of the remarkable depth of Calder's beloved mobile sculptures and entrenching his status as an icon of modernism.

Uniform Title

Works. Selections

Alternative Title

Works.

Subjects

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Alexander Calder: performing sculpture, Tate Modern, London November 11, 2015 to April 3, 2016.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-227) and index.

Contents

Foreword -- Performance or post-performance / Penelope Curtis -- Composing motions: staging Calder's "performing sculpture" / Ann Coxon -- Calder's carnival / Alex J. Taylor -- Between Paris and New York: fountains, fluidity, politics / Marko Daniel -- Wind chimes of modernity: Calder's 1948 trip to Brazil / Sérgio B. Martins -- Earle Brown's Calder Piece and Alexander Calder's Chef d'orchestre / Thomas Fichter -- Work in Progress or "my life in nineteen minutes" / Vassilis Oikonomopoulos -- Plates -- Select chronology / Alexander S.C. Rower -- Select bibliography -- Exhibited works -- Credits -- Index.

Call Number

JQF 16-418

ISBN

0300219156
9780300219159
1849763445
9781849763448

OCLC

920017543

Author

Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976, artist.

Title

Alexander Calder : performing sculpture / edited by Achim Borchardt-Hume ; with contributions by Ann Coxon [and seven others].

Publisher

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2015.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-227) and index.

Chronological Term

1900 - 1999

Added Author

Borchardt-Hume, Achim, editor.

Coxon, Ann, writer of supplementary textual content.

Tate Modern (Gallery), host institution, sponsoring body.

Research Call Number

JQF 16-418

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