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Calder´s Portraits: ´A New Language´
Barbara Zabel
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Description for Calder´s Portraits: ´A New Language´
Hardback. Num Pages: 176 pages, black & white illustrations, colour illustrations, black & white line drawings, figures. BIC Classification: ACX; AFKB; AGB; AGHF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 316 x 235 x 15. Weight in Grams: 1018.
Celebrated for mobiles and stabiles that enliven city squares and museums around the world, Alexander Calder (1898-1976) is not widely recognized as a portraitist. Throughout his career, however, Calder created portraits of a wide variety of subjects: well-known entertainment and political figures, sports stars, artist friends, family members, and himself. Some of these portraits are traditional likenesses in oil on canvas or ink on paper, but most explore new conceptions of form and identity in the medium of sculpture. Executed over a fifty-year period from the early 1920s to the 1970s, Calder's portraits reveal a real talent for portraiture, for ... Read more
Celebrated for mobiles and stabiles that enliven city squares and museums around the world, Alexander Calder (1898-1976) is not widely recognized as a portraitist. Throughout his career, however, Calder created portraits of a wide variety of subjects: well-known entertainment and political figures, sports stars, artist friends, family members, and himself. Some of these portraits are traditional likenesses in oil on canvas or ink on paper, but most explore new conceptions of form and identity in the medium of sculpture. Executed over a fifty-year period from the early 1920s to the 1970s, Calder's portraits reveal a real talent for portraiture, for ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Smithsonian Books
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
1018g
Number of Pages
176
Place of Publication
Washington, United States
ISBN
9780978846091
SKU
V9780978846091
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About Barbara Zabel
Barbara Zabel is professor of art history at Connecticut College and author, most recently, of Assembling Art: The Machine and the American Avant-Garde.
Reviews for Calder´s Portraits: ´A New Language´
Calder's Portraits sheds light on an often-overlooked aspect of Alexander Calder's career and on broader narratives of twentieth-century American culture.
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