Calder Conquest Time Early by Perl Jed (61 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. With very good dust jacket. Very Good hardcover with light shelfwear - NICE! Oversized.

Condition: New. Brand new.New.

Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Hardcover with dustjacket, 690 pages; very good condition tiny tear to upper right corner of dj; no internal marks. Foreign shipping will be extra.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardbound book in very clean condition throughout. Dust jacket in mylar likewise clean and crisp with a trace of shelfwear to bottom edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. Hardbound in dust jacket.

hardcover. Condition: Like New. May have light shelf wear and/or a remainder mark. Complete. Clean pages.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Tiny Black Dot on top Edge.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st. viii, 687 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Near fine. Tight, clean copy. Tiny remainder mark (ink dot)/tail edge. Stated First Edition. Dust jacket protected in a mylar cover. *** "Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved and widely admired artists of the twentieth century. Anybody who has ever set foot in a museum knows him as the inventor of the mobile, America's unique contribution to modern art. But only now, forty years after the artist's death, is the full story of his life being told in this biography,which is based on unprecedented access to Calder's letters and papers as well as scores of interviews. Jed Perl shows us why Calder was--and remains--a barrier breaker, an avant-garde artist with mass appeal." - Publisher. *** CONTENTS: Prologue: "I was framed"; Philadelphia; Stirling and Nanette; Father and son; Pasadena; Croton-on-Hudson; The Panama-Pacific International Exposition; The Stevens Institute of Technology; Engineering; The Art Students League; Animal sketching; Paris; Cirque Calder; Wire sculpture; Rue Cels; Louisa James; Villa Brune; Mondrian's studio; Marriage; Volumes--Vecteurs--Densite s; Mobiles; Rue de la Colonie; Painter Hill Road; From Sandra to Socrate; A very good year; Mercury fountain; A London season; Turning forty; The classical style. Size: 8vo.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. A nice, bright copy. ; A Life Of Calder; Color reproductions; 9.5 X 8.0 X 1.8 inches; 687 pages.

hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A very good hardcover in a very good dust jacket. Scuffing to textblock edges; no markings.

Hardback. Condition: New. The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder: an authoritative and revelatory achievement, based on a wealth of letters and papers never before available, and written by one of our most renowned art critics. Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved and widely admired artists of the twentieth century. Anybody who has ever set foot in a museum knows him as the inventor of the mobile, America's unique contribution to modern art. But only now, forty years after the artist's death, is the full story of his life being told in this biography, which is based on unprecedented access to Calder's letters and papers as well as scores of interviews. Jed Perl shows us why Calder was--and remains--a barrier breaker, an avant-garde artist with mass appeal. This beautifully written, deeply researched book opens with Calder's wonderfully peripatetic upbringing in Philadelphia, California, and New York. Born in 1898 into a family of artists--his father was a well-known sculptor, his mother a painter and a pioneering feminist--Calder went on as an adult to forge important friendships with a who's who of twentieth-century artists, including Joan Mir�, Marcel Duchamp, Georges Braque, and Piet Mondrian. We move through Calder's early years studying engineering to his first artistic triumphs in Paris in the late 1920s, and to his emergence as a leader in the international abstract avant-garde. His marriage in 1931 to the free-spirited Louisa James--she was a great-niece of Henry James--is a richly romantic story, related here with a wealth of detail and nuance. Calder's life takes on a transatlantic richness, from New York's Greenwich Village in the Roaring Twenties, to the Left Bank of Paris during the Depression, and then back to the United States, where the Calders bought a run-down old farmhouse in western Connecticut. New light is shed on Calder's lifelong interest in dance, theater, and performance, ranging from the Cirque Calder, the theatrical event that became his calling card in bohemian Paris to collaborations with the choreographer Martha Graham and the composer Virgil Thomson. More than 350 illustrations in color and black-and-white--including little-known works and many archival photographs that have never before been seen--further enrich the story.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good - Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good - Fine. First Edition. A 1st edition of the first volume of Perl's two volume biography of the noted scultor. Minimal wear. A very good or beter copy. A heavy, oversize book that will require additional postage.

Hardcover. Condition: AS NEW CONDITION. Dust Jacket Condition: AS NEW DUST JACKET. First Edition, First Printing. // NO REMAINDER MARK// NO PREVIOUS OWNER MARKS OF ANY KIND (no names or inscriptions, no bookplate, no underlining, etc) // NOT PRICE CLIPPED // NEW MYLAR COVER//.

Hardback. Condition: As New. The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder: an authoritative and revelatory achievement, based on a wealth of letters and papers never before available, and written by one of our most renowned art critics. Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved and widely admired artists of the twentieth century. Anybody who has ever set foot in a museum knows him as the inventor of the mobile, America's unique contribution to modern art. But only now, forty years after the artist's death, is the full story of his life being told in this biography, which is based on unprecedented access to Calder's letters and papers as well as scores of interviews. Jed Perl shows us why Calder was--and remains--a barrier breaker, an avant-garde artist with mass appeal. This beautifully written, deeply researched book opens with Calder's wonderfully peripatetic upbringing in Philadelphia, California, and New York. Born in 1898 into a family of artists--his father was a well-known sculptor, his mother a painter and a pioneering feminist--Calder went on as an adult to forge important friendships with a who's who of twentieth-century artists, including Joan Miro, Marcel Duchamp, Georges Braque, and Piet Mondrian. We move through Calder's early years studying engineering to his first artistic triumphs in Paris in the late 1920s, and to his emergence as a leader in the international abstract avant-garde. His marriage in 1931 to the free-spirited Louisa James--she was a great-niece of Henry James--is a richly romantic story, related here with a wealth of detail and nuance. Calder's life takes on a transatlantic richness, from New York's Greenwich Village in the Roaring Twenties, to the Left Bank of Paris during the Depression, and then back to the United States, where the Calders bought a run-down old farmhouse in western Connecticut. New light is shed on Calder's lifelong interest in dance, theater, and performance, ranging from the Cirque Calder, the theatrical event that became his calling card in bohemian Paris to collaborations with the choreographer Martha Graham and the composer Virgil Thomson. More than 350 illustrations in color and black-and-white--including little-known works and many archival photographs that have never before been seen--further enrich the story.

Hardcover. Condition: Like New. First Edition. Hard cover stated first edition in the jacket as shown. NO remainder mark. A massive work, 687 pages, illustrated. Will be THE classic work on Calder. The book is like new, tight, clean and unmarked. Jacket shows faint edge rub or I would grade it all fine. Nice. Shelf P.

Condition: Used - Like New.

Condition: New.

Condition: As New. Unread book in perfect condition.

Hardcover, in dust jacket. First edition, first printing. Lightly pressed corners, else fine, in fine dust jacket, with light shelf wear, in mylar cover.