Alexander Calder: Multum in Parvo

Calder, Alexander and Jed Perl, Paul Goldberger

ISBN 10: 0986060658 / ISBN 13: 9780986060656

Published by Dominque Levy, 2015

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Bibliographic Details

Title: Alexander Calder: Multum in Parvo

Publisher: Dominque Levy

Publication Date: 2015

Binding: Hardcover

About this title

Synopsis:

Multum in Parvo highlights the complex relationship between scale and size in the oeuvre of Alexander Calder (1898–1976) over a period of more than 30 years.

As its title--translating to “much in little”--implies, the volume features over 40 rare small-scale sculptures, ranging from the size of a thumb to 30 inches tall, all of which feature the same physical qualities as Calder’s largest mobiles in the most miniature of detail.

In addition to archival material, installation photography of the sculptures in the environment designed for them by architects Santiago and Gabriel Calatrava, and original architectural sketches, the book also includes commissioned essays by Jed Perl, art historian and author currently at work on the first full-length biography of Alexander Calder, and Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic, as well as poems by Karl Shapiro and John Updike.

About the Author:

Paul Goldberger, qui a obtenu le prix Pulitzer de critique d architecture, travaille actuellement pour Vanity Fair et a ete critique d architecture pour le New York Times et le New Yorker; parmi beaucoup d autres titres, il est l auteur de Why Architecture Matters, Building Up and Tearing Down: Reflections on the Age of Architecture, Up from Zero: Politics, Architecture, and the Rebuilding of New York, et On the Rise: Architecture and Design in a Post-Modern Age. Il fait de nombreuses conferences dans tout le pays sur l architecture, le design, la preservation du patrimoine historique et l urbanisme; il a enseigne a la New School a New York, a la Yale School of Architecture, et a la Graduate School of Journalism de l universite de Californie, a Berkeley.

Jed Perl, the art critic for The New Republic, has been called by poet John Ashbery an almost solitary, essential voice. His many books include Antoine s Alphabet: Watteau and His World, Eyewitness: Reports from an Art World in Crisis, and New Art City: Manhattan at Mid-Century. He is currently working on a biography of Alexander Calder.