| Description |
233 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm |
| Note |
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Alexander Calder: performing sculpture, Tate Modern, London November 11, 2015 to April 3, 2016. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-227) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Performance or post-performance / Penelope Curtis -- Composing motions : staging Calder's "performing sculpture" / Ann Coxon -- Calder's carnival / Alex J. Taylor -- Between Paris and New York : fountains, fluidity, politics / Marko Daniel -- Wind chimes of modernity : Calder's 1948 trip to Brazil / Sérgio B. Martins -- Earle Brown's Calder Piece and Alexander Calder's Chef d'orchestre / Thomas Fichter -- Work in Progress or "my life in nineteen minutes" / Vassilis Oikonomopoulos -- Plates -- Select chronology / Alexander S.C. Rower -- Select bibliography -- Exhibited works -- Credits -- Index. |
| Summary |
Provides detailed insight into that pioneering process through reproductions of personal drawings and notes and new research from a wide range 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. |
| Subject |
Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976 -- Exhibitions.
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Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976 -- Exhibitions.
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Kinetic sculpture, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Kinetic sculpture, American -- 20th century -- Exhibitions.
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Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976. (OCoLC)fst00043452
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Kinetic sculpture, American. (OCoLC)fst00987631
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs.
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Exhibition catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01424028
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| Added Author |
Borchardt-Hume, Achim, editor.
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Coxon, Ann, author.
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Curtis, Penelope, author.
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Daniel, Marko, author.
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Fichter, Thomas, author.
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Martins, Sérgio B., 1977- author.
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Oikonomopoulos, Vassilis, author.
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Rower, A. S. C., author.
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Taylor, Alex J., author.
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Tate Modern (Gallery), host institution, sponsoring body.
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| Added Title |
Works. Selections
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| ISBN |
0300219156 (hardback) |
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9780300219159 (hardback) |
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1849763445 (paperback) |
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9781849763448 (paperback) |
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