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Calder - The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940 (Hardcover)
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Calder - The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940 (Hardcover)
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The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century
sculptor. In this beautifully written, deeply researched book Jed
Perl shows how Alexander Calder became an avant-garde artist with
enduring appeal. One of our most beloved modern artists, Calder is
celebrated above all as the inventor of the mobile. Only now is the
full story of his life being told in a gloriously illustrated
biography, which features unseen photographs and is based on scores
of interviews and unprecedented access to Calder's papers. Born
into a family of artists, Calder forged important friendships with
a who's who of twentieth-century creators, including Georges
Braque, Marcel Duchamp, Martha Graham, Joan Miro, Piet Mondrian and
Virgil Thomson. His early years studying engineering were followed
by artistic triumphs in Paris in the late 1920s, and his emergence
as a leader in the international abstract avant-garde. His marriage
in 1931 to Louisa James-a great-niece of Henry James-is a richly
romantic story. This transatlantic life carries readers from New
York's Greenwich Village, to the Left Bank of Paris during the
Depression, and then to a refugee-filled London just before the
War, where Calder's circle of friends included Barbara Hepworth,
Ben Nicholson and Kenneth Clark.
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