Alexander Calder: Trees: Naming Abstraction

Language: English

Published by Hatje Cantz Publishers January 2014, 2014

3775737103 / 9783775737104

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Alexander Calder (1898-1976) famously transposed modernist visual abstraction into three-dimensional space, initially doing so in the context of European abstract artists such as Mondrian. In 1933, leaving Paris for his native United States, he settled in an old farmhouse in Roxbury, Connecticut, where the forms of nature became a new source of inspiration for his creativity. By the summer of 1934, Calder was producing his first outdoor sculptures. His monumental standing mobile 'The Tree' (1966) exemplifies this new tension between abstraction and figuration. This volume, published for an exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler, tracks Calder's evolution away from geometric abstraction and toward large-scale biomorphism via the tree motif. It includes maquettes that anticipate 'The Tree' as well as a striking group of rarely seen sculptures from the 1930s to the 1950s.

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Title
Alexander Calder: Trees: Naming Abstraction
Author
Delia Ciuha, Oliver Wick, Alexander Calder, Sam Keller,
Publisher
Hatje Cantz Publishers January 2014
Publication year
2014
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New
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Trade Paperback
Language
English
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9783775737104
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