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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté. Image fixe : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Perl, Jed (1951-....)
Titre(s) : Calder [Texte imprimé] : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940 / Jed Perl
Publication : New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2017-2020
Description matérielle : 2 vol. (viii-687 ; 669 p.) : ill. en noir et en coul. ; 24 cm
Comprend : [Vol. 1], The early years 1898-1940 ; [Vol. 2], The later years 1940-1976
Note(s) : Notes bibliogr. p. 607-649 [vol. 1], p. 587-631 [vol.2]. Index
Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved and widely admired artists of the twentieth
century. Anybody who has ever set foot in a museum knows him as the inventor of the
mobile, America's unique contribution to modern art. But only now, forty years after
the artist's death, is the full story of his life being told in this biography, which
is based on unprecedented access to Calder's letters and papers as well as scores
of interviews. Jed Perl shows us why Calder was--and remains--a barrier breaker, an
avant-garde artist with mass appeal ; "Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved
and widely admired artists of the twentieth century. Anybody who has ever set foot
in a museum knows him as the inventor of the mobile, America's unique contribution
to modern art. But only now, forty years after the artist's death, is the full story
of his life being told in this biography, which is based on unprecedented access to
Calder's letters and papers as well as scores of interviews. Jed Perl shows us why
Calder was--and remains--a barrier breaker, an avant-garde artist with mass appeal.
This...book opens with Calder's wonderfully peripatetic upbringing in Philadelphia,
California, and New York. Born in 1898 into a family of artists--his father was a
well-known sculptor, his mother a painter and a pioneering feminist--Calder went on
as an adult to forge important friendships with a who's who of twentieth-century artists,
including Joan Miró, Marcel Duchamp, Georges Braque, and Piet Mondrian. We move through
Calder's early years studying engineering to his first artistic triumphs in Paris
in the late 1920s, and to his emergence as a leader in the international abstract
avant-garde. His marriage in 1931 to the free-spirited Louisa James--she was a great-niece
of Henry James--is a richly romantic story, related here with a wealth of detail and
nuance. Calder's life takes on a transatlantic richness, from New York's Greenwich
Village in the Roaring Twenties, to the Left Bank of Paris during the Depression,
and then back to the United States, where the Calders bought a run-down old farmhouse
in western Connecticut. New light is shed on Calder's lifelong interest in dance,
theater, and performance, ranging from the Cirque Calder, the theatrical event that
became his calling card in bohemian Paris to collaborations with the choreographer
Martha Graham and the composer Virgil Thomson. More than 350 illustrations in color
and black-and-white--including little-known works and many archival photographs that
have never before been seen-further enrich the story." -- Publisher's description
Sujet(s) : Calder, Alexander (1898-1976) -- Critique et interprétation
Calder, Alexander (1898-1976)
Genre ou forme : Biographie
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-307-27272-0. - ISBN 0-307-27272-9 ([vol. 1]). - ISBN 978-0-451-49411-5
([vol. 2]) (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb465614629
Notice n° :
FRBNF46561462
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Prologue: "I was framed" ; Philadelphia ; Stirling and Nanette ; Father and son
; Pasadena ; Croton-on-Hudson ; The Panama-Pacific International Exposition ; The
Stevens Institute of Technology ; Engineering ; The Art Students League ; Animal
sketching ; Paris ; Cirque Calder ; Wire sculpture ; Rue Cels ; Louisa James
; Villa Brune ; Mondrian's studio ; Marriage ; Volumes ; ecteurs ; ensités ; Mobiles
; Rue de la Colonie ; Painter Hill Road ; From Sandra to Socrate ; A very good
year ; Mercury fountain ; A London season ; Turning forty ; The classical style.
