0
Your cart

Your cart is empty

Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900

Buy Now

Calder - The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940 (Hardcover) Loot Price: R1,272
Discovery Miles 12 720
Calder - The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940 (Hardcover): Jed Perl

Calder - The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940 (Hardcover)

Jed Perl

 (sign in to rate)
Loot Price R1,272 Discovery Miles 12 720 | Repayment Terms: R119 pm x 12*

Bookmark and Share

Expected to ship within 12 - 19 working days

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.

General

Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of origin: United States
Release date: October 2017
Authors: Jed Perl
Dimensions: 235 x 187 x 51mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover - Cloth over boards
Pages: 704
ISBN-13: 978-0-300-23331-5
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Film, television, music, theatre
Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > General
Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Art treatments & subjects > Individual artists > General
Books > Biography > Film, television, music, theatre
Promotions
LSN: 0-300-23331-0
Barcode: 9780300233315

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!

You might also like..

Acts Of Transgression - Contemporary…
Jay Pather, Catherine Boulle Paperback R460 R425 Discovery Miles 4 250
St Barnabas Pimlico - Ritual and Riots
Malcolm Johnson, Alan Taylor Hardcover R1,152 Discovery Miles 11 520
Room for Diplomacy - The History of…
Mark Bertram Hardcover R1,689 Discovery Miles 16 890
Visualizing the Holocaust - Documents…
David Bathrick, Brad Prager, … Hardcover R2,255 Discovery Miles 22 550
Sandra Blow
Michael Bird Paperback R794 Discovery Miles 7 940
Liyoze Line Nangakithi
William Zulu Paperback R75 R70 Discovery Miles 700
The Philosophy and Politics of Abstract…
Nancy Jachec Hardcover R3,347 Discovery Miles 33 470
The Art of DuckTales (Deluxe Edition)
Ken Plume, Disney Hardcover R2,728 R2,535 Discovery Miles 25 350
Theatres of War - Contemporary…
Lauri Scheyer Hardcover R3,369 Discovery Miles 33 690
Brilliant Absence - Pursuing the…
Ross Hair Paperback R426 Discovery Miles 4 260
Nobody
Alice Oswald Hardcover R720 Discovery Miles 7 200
The Art of Spyro: Reignited Trilogy
Micky Nielson Hardcover R834 Discovery Miles 8 340

See more

Partners