Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Later Years, 1940-1976
by Perl, Jed
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- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0451494113
- ISBN 13
- 9780451494115
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About This Item
New York: Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book, 2020. vi, 669 pages, illustrations (some colour); 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Tiny remainder mark (ink dot)/tail edge. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar book cover. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by special arrangement. "The concluding volume of the first authorized biography of one of the most important, influential, and beloved of 20th century sculptors, and one of the greatest artists in the cultural history of America--a vividly written, illuminating account of his triumphant later years. The concluding volume of this magnificent biography begins during World War II, when Calder--known to all as Sandy--and his wife, Louisa, opened their home to the stream of artists and writers in exile from Europe. In the postwar decades, they divided their time between the United States and France, as Sandy made his first monumental public sculptures and received blockbuster commissions that included Expo '67 in Montreal, and the 1968 Olympics in Mexico City. Jed Perl makes clear how Sandy's radical sculptural imagination shaped the minimalist and kinetic art movements that emerged in the 1960s. And we see, as well, that through everything--their ever-expanding friendships with artists and writers of all stripes; working to end the war in Viet Nam; hosting riotous dance parties at their Connecticut home; seeing "mobile," Sandy's essential artistic invention, find its way into Webster's' dictionary--Sandy and Louisa remained the risk-taking, singularly bohemian couple they had been since first meeting at the end of the Roaring Twenties. The biography ends with Sandy's death in 1976 at the age of seventy-eight--only weeks after an encyclopedic retrospective of his work opened at the Whitney Museum in New York--but leaves us with a new, clearer understanding of both the artist and the man." - Publisher.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Fine. 8vo.
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- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 124184
- Title
- Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Later Years, 1940-1976
- Author
- Perl, Jed
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0451494113
- ISBN 13
- 9780451494115
- Publisher
- Alfred A. Knopf; A Borzoi Book
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2020
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- American / 5. Modern, 1900-1945; Media / Sculpture; Movements / Kinetic;
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