Alexander Calder : modern from the start / Cara Manes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976, artist.

Contributor:

Manes, Cara

Lowry, Glenn D., writer of foreword.

Temkin, Ann, writer of introduction.

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.), host institution, publisher.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

New York (State)--New York.

Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976--Exhibitions.

Calder, Alexander.

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.)--Exhibitions.

Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.).

Artists and museums--New York (State)--New York--Exhibitions.

Artists and museums.

Calder, Alexander,.

Sculpture--New York (State)--Exhibitions--20th century.

Sculpture, Modern--Exhibitions--20th century.

Kinetic sculpture, American--Exhibitions--20th century.

Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976.

Sculpture, Modern.

Kinetic sculpture, American.

Sculpture.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

exhibition catalogs.

Exhibition catalogs

Physical Description:

144 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm

Distribution:

New York, New York : ARTBOOK, D.A.P.

Other Title:

Modern from the start

Place of Publication:

New York : The Museum of Modern Art, [2021]

Summary:

Alexander Calder's work first appeared in the Museum of Modern Art's galleries in 1930, in the exhibition Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans. Calder cultivated friendships and working relationships with notable figures, including Alfred H. Barr Jr., the Museum's founding director, and James Johnson Sweeney, with whom he collaborated on his retrospective exhibition in 1943. His work is imprinted on MoMA's early history, not only for its material and conceptual innovation but also for its presence at significant moments, such as a mobile made to hang over the lobby's grand staircase on the occasion of the new Goodwin and Stone building (Lobster Trap and Fish Tail, which hangs there to this day); a candelabra to adorn the tables at a celebratory anniversary event; and a sculpture to fly off a flagpole to advertise the landmark exhibition Cubism and Abstract Art.

"Alexander Calder's work first appeared in The Museum of Modern Art's galleries in 1930, in the exhibition Painting and Sculpture by Living Americans. Over the next decades the artist's connection with the Museum would be deep, productive, and mutually beneficial. Calder cultivated friendships and working relationships with notable figures, including Alfred H. Barr Jr., the Museum's founding director, and James Johnson Sweeney, with whom he collaborated on his expansive retrospective exhibition in 1943. His work is imprinted on MoMA's early history, not only for its material and conceptual innovation but also for its presence at significant moments, such as a mobile made to hang over the lobby's grand staircase on the occasion of the new Goodwin and Stone building (Lobster Trap and Fish Tail, which hangs there to this day); an elaborate candelabra to adorn the tables at a celebratory anniversary event; and a sculpture to fly off a flagpole to advertise the landmark exhibition Cubism and Abstract Art."--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Alexander Calder: modern from the start / Cara Manes

A propos of measuring a mobile / Alexander Calder

Tracing lineages / Alexander S.C. Rower

Alexander Calder in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art

Checklist of the exhibition

Exhibition history

Further reading.

Foreword / Glenn D. Lowry

Introduction / Ann Temkin

Alexander Calder: modern from the start / Cara Manes

Notes:

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Alexander Calder: Modern from the Start, at The Museum of Modern Art, New York, March 7-August 7 2021"--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references (page 137).

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Ashjean fund bookplate.

ISBN:

9781633451162

163345116X

OCLC:

1233299427

Publisher Number:

MoMA 2457