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The Paris Years, 1926-1933
Simon, Joan Leal, Brigitte
Joan Simon, Brigitte Leal
ISBN: 9780300126228
Format: Hardback
Publisher:Yale University Press
Edition: illustrated edition
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In 1926, Alexander Calder (1898-1976) moved from New York to Paris and began to use time and motion as 'materials' for animating line and space. This book focuses on Calder's years in Paris. It contains essays which explore the intellectual, cultural, and artistic milieu of Paris in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
In 1926, Alexander Calder (1898-1976) moved from New York to Paris and began to use time and motion as 'materials' for animating line and space. Calder's years in Paris - an understudied part of the artist's career - is the focus of this marvellous publication.A team of international scholars discusses Calder's many innovations of this period, chief among them his abstract, motorized, and mobile works. They analyze the extended cast of Calder's animated Circus, made in Paris between 1926 and 1931, and include previously unpublished photographs by Brassai and Kertesz of Calder and this beloved performative sculpture. The essays critically explore the intellectual, cultural, and artistic milieu of Paris in the late 1920s and early 1930s and the contexts of Calder's friendships with Miro, Mondrian, Duchamp, and Man Ray, among others. What emerges in this fascinating book is a nuanced and detailed understanding of how Calder's distinctive career first took flight.
| ISBN | 0300126220 | | Pages | 302 | | ISBN13 | 9780300126228
(What's this?) | | Volumes | 1 | | Publisher | Yale University Press | | Weight (grammes) | 1792 | | Imprint | Yale University Press | | Published in | New Haven | | Format | Hardback | | Series title | Whitney Museum of American Art | | Publication date | 18 Jul 2008 | | Height (mm) | 279 | | Library of Congress | 2007050406 | | Width (mm) | 248 | | DEWEY | 709.2 | | Spine width (mm) | 36 | | DEWEY edition | DC22 | | Academic level | General, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly |
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| | | Sponsor's Statement | | | | | | Foreword by Adam D. Weinberg and Alain Seban and Alfred Pacquement | | | | | | Alexander Calder: The Paris Years by Joan Simon | | | | | | Plates: Caricatures, Portraits, Figures | | | | | | Calder the Illustrator: Corporeal Writing to Organic Sign by Brigitte Leal | | | | | | Plates: Animals, Toys, Circus | | | | | | Calder as Artist-Engineer: Vectors, Velocities by Henry Petroski | | | | | | The Search for Ubiquity: Calder and the Reproduction of His Works, 1927-32 by Quentin Bajac | | | | | | Calder's Once and Future Circus: A Conservator's Perspective by Eleonora Nagy and Carol Mancusi-Ungaro | | | | | | The Alchemist: Alexander Calder and Surrealism by Pepe Karmel | | | | | | Parisian Metamorphosis in Four Acts by Annie Cohen-Solal | | | | | | Painting and Working in the Abstract: Calder's Oeuvre and Constructive Art by Arnauld Pierre | | | | | | Plates: Abstraction | | | | | | Chronology by Alexander S.C. Rower | | | | | | Works in the Exhibition | | | | | | Selected Exhibition History | | | | | | Selected Bibliography | | | | | | Lenders to the Exhibition | | | | | | Index | | |
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