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.
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