| Description |
304 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm |
| Note |
Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 289-293) and index. |
| Contents |
Alexander Calder : the Paris years / Joan Simon -- Plates : Caricatures, portraits, figures -- Calder the illustrator : corporeal writing to organic sign / Brigitte Leal -- Plates : Animals, toys, circus -- Calder as artist-engineer : vectors, velocities / Henry Petroski -- The search for ubiquity : Calder and the reproduction of his works, 1927-32 / Quentin Bajac -- Clader's once and future circus : a conservator's perspective / Eleonora Nagy with Carol Mancusi-Ungaro -- The alchemist : Alexander Calder and surrealism / Pepe Karmel -- Parisian metamorphosis in four acts / Annie Cohen-Solal -- Painting and working in the abstract : Calder's oeuvre and constructive art / Arnauld Pierre -- Plates : Abstraction -- Chronology / Alexander S.C. Rower. |
| Subject |
Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976 -- Exhibitions.
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Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976. |
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Expatriate sculptors -- France -- Paris -- Exhibitions.
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Expatriate sculptors. |
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France -- Paris. |
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Sculptors -- United States -- Exhibitions.
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Sculptors. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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| Added Author |
Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976.
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Léal, Brigitte.
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Whitney Museum of American Art.
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Centre Georges Pompidou.
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| ISBN |
9780300126228 hardcover |
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0300126220 hardcover |
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