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Author
Publisher
Museum of Modern Art
Pub. Date
[1946]
Language
English
Description
"Alexander Calder may best be known for his mobile creations, but his illustrations in Three Young Rats and Other Rhymes shows another side of his exuberant imagination. The pages of this children's book are filled with nursery rhymes from Mother Goose and other classic stories compiled by former Guggenheim Director James Johnson Sweeney, as well as 85 unique, whimsical, and pithy illustrations by Calder. What sets this children's book of nursery...
Author
Publisher
National Gallery of Art
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Catalogue of a centenary retrospective exhibition of 265 objects by Alexander Calder, including sculptures, paintings, drawings and jewelry. Text of the catalogue is divided into five chronological sections each of which is accompanied by a detailed chronology. The exhibition emphasizes the artist's early career into the 1940s when he created his first mobiles, stabiles and standing mobiles. His monumental public scuptures from the last two-and-a-half...
Author
Publisher
Menil Collection
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: Alexander Calder (1898-1976) is a key presence in the history of modern art, and yet he is rarely seen or remembered in the context from which he initially emerged as an artist. When Calder became "Calder"--Well known for his signature mobiles and stabiles-it was due to a unique variety of presiding influences. His artistic parentage consisted of Marcel Duchamp, who provided the name of and concept for the mobile; Piet Mondrian,...
12) The Calder game
Author
Language
English
Description
When seventh-grader Calder Pillay disappears from a remote English village-- along with an Alexander Calder sculpture to which he has felt strangely drawn-- his friends Petra and Tommy fly from Chicago to help his father find him.
14) Calder/Miró
Publisher
Philip Wilson Publishers in collaboration with the Phillips Collection and Fondation Beyeler
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
