Alexander Calder: Performing Sculpture

by Achim Borchardt-Hume

Book Overview

An insightful new look at one of the 20th century's most celebrated artistic visionaries

Alexander Calder (1898-1976) is one of modernism's most captivating and influential figures. First trained as a mechanical engineer, Calder relocated from New York to Paris in the mid-twenties where his acceptance into the city's burgeoning avant-garde circles coincided with the development of his characteristic form of kinetic sculpture. His early...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300219156
• ISBN13: 9780300219159
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 3.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 9.0" x 11.1"