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Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940 / Jed Perl

By:

Perl, Jed

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New York : Alfred A. Knopf , 2017Description: 687 p. : illus. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780307272720

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DDC classification:

92 CAL

LOC classification:

QB29 .H33 1999

Summary: 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.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Libro - Monografía	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	92 CAL (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		005551

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.

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