Calder : the conquest of space : the later years : 1940-1976 / Jed Perl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Perl, Jed, author.

Standardized Title:

Calder (2020)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976.

Calder, Alexander.

Sculptors--United States--Biography.

Sculptors.

United States.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

vi, 669 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2020.

Summary:

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Prologue: Grand Rapids 1969

The war years

Friends and neighbors

Life among the surrealists

Constellations

A modern retrospective

One fire, two dealers, and three young rats

Fathers and sons

Paris again

Roxbury

Questions of travel

Le 31 Janvier

Sculpture into architecture

Sache

Democratic vistas

Old and young

Teodelapio

Critics

An autobiography with pictures

Work in progress

The artist at seventy

A house on a hill

Late style

Chicago, Jerusalem, and Barcelona

The dancer and the dance.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Jones Fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version: Perl, Jed. Calder

ISBN:

9780451494115

0451494113

OCLC:

1105735352