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Author:

Simon, Joan, 1949-

Title:

Alexander Calder : the Paris years, 1926-1933 / Joan Simon and Brigitte Léal ; with contributions from Henry Petroski ... [et al.].

Publisher:

Yale University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

304 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.

Subject:

Calder, Alexander,--1898-1976--Exhibitions.
Expatriate sculptors--Paris--Paris--Exhibitions.
Sculptors--United States--Exhibitions.

Other Authors:

Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976.
Léal, Brigitte.
Whitney Museum of American Art.
Centre Georges Pompidou.

Notes:

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.

ISBN:

0300126220 (hardcover)
9780300126228 (hardcover)

LCCN:

2007050406

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

NYPE343 -- Charles City Public Library (Charles City)

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)