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Calder. Sculpting Time explores the profound and transformative impact of one of the 20th century's most revolutionary artists through a focused lens. Alexander Calder (18981976) changed the way we perceive and interact with sculpture by introducing the fourth dimension of time into art with his legendary mobiles a term coined by Marcel Duchamp that refers to both motion and motive in French and by exploring volumes and voids in his stabiles, christened by Jean Arp for his stationary objects.

This catalogue includes over 30 masterworks made between 1930 and 1960 Calder's most innovative, prolific years from his early abstractions or sphériques to a magnificent selection of mobiles, stabiles, and standing mobiles of various scales. It also features a large body of Calder's Constellations, a term proposed by Duchamp and James Johnson Sweeney for the artist's beloved objects made from wood and wire in 1943, a time when sheet metal was in short supply

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      Publisher Silvana Editoriale S.P.A.
      Published 10/15/2024
      ISBN-13 9788836657827
      978-8836657827
      ISBN-10 8836657826

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Calder. Sculpting Time explores the profound and transformative impact of one of the 20th century's most revolutionary artists through a focused lens. Alexander Calder (18981976) changed the way we perceive and interact with sculpture by introducing the fourth dimension of time into art with his legendary mobiles a term coined by Marcel Duchamp that refers to both motion and motive in French and by exploring volumes and voids in his stabiles, christened by Jean Arp for his stationary objects.

      This catalogue includes over 30 masterworks made between 1930 and 1960 Calder's most innovative, prolific years from his early abstractions or sphériques to a magnificent selection of mobiles, stabiles, and standing mobiles of various scales. It also features a large body of Calder's Constellations, a term proposed by Duchamp and James Johnson Sweeney for the artist's beloved objects made from wood and wire in 1943, a time when sheet metal was in short supply

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