Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture

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An insightful new take a look at one of the vital 20th century’s most celebrated artistic visionaries

Alexander Calder (1898-1976) is considered one of modernism’s most captivating and influential figures. First trained as a mechanical engineer, Calder relocated from New York to Paris in the mid-twenties where his acceptance into the city’s burgeoning avant-garde circles coincided with the development of his characteristic type of kinetic sculpture. His early work Cirque Calder, which was once presented during Paris to great acclaim, prefigures the performance and theatrical aspects that dominate Calder’s pioneering artistic works and are located as a primary subject of intrigue on this publication.
 
Moderately than simply refashion sculpture’s traditional forms, Calder envisioned entirely new possibilities for the medium and transformed its static nature into something dynamic and responsive. Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture provides detailed insight into that pioneering process through reproductions of personal drawings and notes. Also featured is new research from quite a lot of renowned scholars, furthering our understanding of the remarkable depth of Calder’s beloved mobile sculptures and entrenching his status as an icon of modernism. 

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