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New York: Whitney Museum of American Art; Yale University Press, 2008. Pictorial boards, 304 pages, illustrations (some colour); 28 cm. Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Firm binding, clean inside copy. OVERSIZE! No priority/international, except by arrangement. Richly illustrated with colour plates. "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 marvelous 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analyze the extended cast of Calder's animated 'Circus,' made in Paris between 1926 and 1931, and include previously unpublished photographs by Brassai and Kertesz of… Read More

Yale Univ Pr. New. 2008. Hardcover. 0300126220 .*** FREE UPGRADE to Courier/Priority Shipping Upon Request *** – – *** IN STOCK AND IMMEDIATELY AVAILABLE FOR SHIPMENT - Flawless copy, brand new, pristine, never opened - 302 pp. With 300 ills. (280 col. ). 28 x 25 cm. -- with a bonus offer-- .