Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940 (A Life of Calder)
US $7.67US $7.67
Jun 04, 09:29Jun 04, 09:29
Picture 1 of 1
Gallery
Picture 1 of 1
Have one to sell?
Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940 (A Life of Calder)
US $7.67
ApproximatelyS$ 9.84
Condition:
Good
A book that has been read but is in good condition. Very minimal damage to the cover including scuff marks, but no holes or tears. The dust jacket for hard covers may not be included. Binding has minimal wear. The majority of pages are undamaged with minimal creasing or tearing, minimal pencil underlining of text, no highlighting of text, no writing in margins. No missing pages.
Oops! Looks like we're having trouble connecting to our server.
Refresh your browser window to try again.
Shipping:
Free Standard Shipping.
Located in: Little Falls, New Jersey, United States
Delivery:
Estimated between Thu, 21 Aug and Tue, 26 Aug to 94104
Returns:
30 days return. Buyer pays for return shipping. If you use an eBay shipping label, it will be deducted from your refund amount.
Coverage:
Read item description or contact seller for details. See all detailsSee all details on coverage
(Not eligible for eBay purchase protection programmes)
Seller assumes all responsibility for this listing.
eBay item number:306043917920
Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2017
- ISBN
- 9780307272720
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307272729
ISBN-13
9780307272720
eBay Product ID (ePID)
235969006
Product Key Features
Book Title
Calder: the Conquest of Time : the Early Years: 1898-1940
Number of Pages
704 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2017
Topic
History / Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945), Individual Artists / General, Artists, Architects, Photographers
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Art, Biography & Autobiography
Book Series
Alife of Calder Ser.
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
2 in
Item Weight
67.3 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
7.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-054731
Reviews
"A hulking and exhaustively researched biography of American sculptor Alexander Calder (1898-1976), focusing on the first four decades of his life....Perl throughout emphasizes Calder's debt to the Arts and Crafts movement, particularly in his ability to blend fine art with everyday objects such as children's toys. Generously illustrated and delivered in vibrant writing (he describes one of Calder's tabletop standing mobiles as 'the spiderweb strength and delicacy of an Emily Dickinson poem'), Perl offers what will be without question the authoritative source on the man whom the French affectionately nicknamed le roi du fil de fer --'the wire king.'" -- Publishers Weekly *starred review*, "Calder is an artist whose influence is so ubiquitous that you sometimes completely lose sight of him. Jed Perl, one of our most brilliant art critics, has remedied this in a superbly researched, illustrated, and crafted biography of his early years. We can now savor Calder's accomplishment fully and see where his genius lies, and how it matters to us today." --John Ashbery "In this richly satisfying biography, Calder appears as charming as ever, but he is also a much more powerful figure than the beloved teddy bear of legend. He becomes a modern philosopher-king, unpretentious but serious, who takes the true measure of a world that never stops moving." --Mark Stevens, co-author with Annalyn Swan of De Kooning: An American Master "All artists are critics but very few critics are artists. Jed Perl is one of those few. He has the critical imagination to imagine Calder's imagination, and the rare ability to engage that of the reader." --Fran Lebowitz "Calder's magic brilliantly captivated by an astute biographer." --John Richardson, author of A Life of Picasso "Not all brilliant studies are definitive, and not all definitive studies are brilliant: Jed Perl's Calder succeeds at being both. It's a masterwork account of the life of one of America's greatest artists that's also an account of America coming into its own. Passionate, learned, playful and ranging, it's as solidly-grounded as a stabile, but like a mobile it appears to defy gravity-- and float ." --Joshua Cohen, author of Book of Numbers and Moving Kings "Perl's vibrant, driving prose distills a detailed, captivating and multigenerational history into a lucid and useful biography that miraculously eschews excess. He reveals how Calder's magnetic personality and synthetic thinking determined a radical new course for 20th-century art." --Adam D. Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown Director, Whitney Museum of American Art "A meticulously researched biography of one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century....Not only an essential record of the first 40 years of Calder's life, but an exceptional chronicle of the genesis of modernism." -- Kirkus Reviews *starred review* "A hulking and exhaustively researched biography of American sculptor Alexander Calder (1898-1976), focusing on the first four decades of his life....Perl throughout emphasizes Calder's debt to the Arts and Crafts movement, particularly in his ability to blend fine art with everyday objects such as children's toys. Generously illustrated and delivered in vibrant writing (he describes one of Calder's tabletop standing mobiles as 'the spiderweb strength and delicacy of an Emily Dickinson poem'), Perl offers what will be without question the authoritative source on the man whom the French affectionately nicknamed le roi du fil de fer --'the wire king.'" -- Publishers Weekly *starred review* "Art critic Perl joins the select ranks of multivolume arts biographers, among them Hilary Spurling on Matisse and John Richardson on Picasso, with the first in a foundational two-book inquiry into the unusually sunny life and exuberantly radical work of sculptor Alexander Calder....Graced with 400 photographs, Perl's dynamic and illuminating biography, as buoyant and evocative as Calder's sculptures, concludes with the ebullient and cosmic artist poised for ever more creative adventures and renown." -- Booklist *starred review*
Series Volume Number
1
Synopsis
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 Miró, 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., 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.
LC Classification Number
NB237.C28P47 2017
Item description from the seller
Seller feedback (195,356)
This item (1)
All items (195,356)
- m***h (2148)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseExcellent seller! Excellent book! Super fast shipping! Thank you.
- n***r (218)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseFast shipping, great condition.
- r***3 (51)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseReally good book to get you started.
- i***k (3413)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseproblem free transaction
Seller feedback (195,356)
This item (1)
All items (195,356)
- m***h (2148)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseExcellent seller! Excellent book! Super fast shipping! Thank you.
- n***r (218)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseFast shipping, great condition.
- r***3 (51)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseReally good book to get you started.
- i***k (3413)- Feedback left by buyer.Past monthVerified purchaseproblem free transaction