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Photograph by Ugo Mulas. Baby rattle, c. 1935. The essence of Calder’s politics can be found in these humble pursuits. Calder could be demonstrably political when moved by dire or extreme situations.
Nearly 45 years after his death, Calder's expansion of the realm of sculpture in new directions of form, color, and engineering remains a subject of voluminous discussion, including critic Jed Perl's Calder: Open Culture, openculture.com.
The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder: an authoritative and revelatory achievement, based on a wealth of letters and papers never before...
Nov 27, 2017 · The greatest British sculptor of the period, Calder’s friend and exact contemporary, has, after all, kept his reputation afloat with only a single-volume biography—but this may be a...
Jan 8, 2018 · Calder was a pioneer of 20th-century sculpture, among the first to endow his works with a fourth dimension: movement. Duck (1909), which rocks back and forth on its curved underside, can be considered the artist’s first kinetic sculpture.
Nov 11, 2020 · Alexander Calder in studio, Roxbury, 1973 - Hartford History Center, Hartford Public Library and Connecticut History Illustrated. By Emily Dunnack for Your Public Media. July 22nd is the birthday of Alexander Calder, one of the best-known and most prolific sculptors of the 20th century.
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Biographer Jed Perl and Alexander “Sandy” S. C. Rower, president of the Calder Foundation, discuss the genesis of the book, the nature of genius, and preview what’s to come in the second volume with the Quarterly ’s Wyatt Allgeier. Alexander Calder in his studio, 1929. Photo by André Kertész, gelatin silver print, 9 ⅛ × 7 ¾ inches (23.4 × 19.6 cm).
