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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. "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...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." -- Publisher's description

ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945). --- ART / Individual Artists. --- Artists --- Artists. --- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers. --- Sculptors --- Sculptors. --- Calder, Alexander, --- United States. --- 7.07 --- Calder, Alexander 1898-1976 (°Lawnton, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten) --- Alexander Calder; vroeg werk; 1898-1940 --- Graham, Martha 1894-1991 (Allegheny PA, Verenigde Staten) --- Mondriaan, Piet (Pieter Cornelis) 1872-1944 (°Amersfoort, Nederland) --- Miro, Joan 1893-1983 (°Barcelona, Spanje) --- Duchamp, Marcel 1887-1968 (°Blainville, Seine-Maritime, Frankrijk) --- Braque, Georges 1882-1963 (°Argenteuil-sur-Seine, Frankrijk) --- Kunstenaars met verschillende disciplines, niet traditioneel klasseerbare, conceptuele kunstenaars A - Z --- Calder, Sandy, --- Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976 --- Ḳalder, Aleksander, --- קאלדר, אלכסנדר

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Long before Microsoft or Apple occupied their legendary corporate campuses, there was the General Motors Technical Center in Warren, Michigan. Completed in 1956 and designated a National Historic Landmark in 2014, this icon of midcentury design was celebrated modern architect Eero Saarinen's (1910 - 1961) first major commission completed independent of his father, Eliel Saarinen, and its story offers a unique perspective on his work. Longtime GM designer Susan Skarsgard weaves a detailed insider's account of the early days of General Motors, the initiation of the technical center project under Eliel Saarinen, its design and construction under Eero Saarinen, and the enthusiastic acclaim the campus received upon its opening. Many leading lights of midcentury modernism were involved in the project as design consultants or artists, including Harry Bertoia, Alexander Girard, Florence Knoll, and Alexander Calder. This lavishly illustrated account is a unique document of a landmark project, presented in photographs and architectural drawings, interviews, documents, and ephemera, many never before seen.

Modern movement (Architecture) - Michigan - Warren --- Business parks - Michigan - Warren --- Saarinen, Eero, - 1910-1961 - Criticism and interpretation --- Warren (Mich.) - Buildings, structures, etc --- Architectuur ; Verenigde Staten ; Modernisme --- Calder, Alexander 1898-1976 (°Lawnton, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten) --- Knoll, Florence 1917-2019 (°Saginaw, Michigan, Verenigde Staten) --- Bertoia, Harry 1915-1978 (°San Lorenzo, Pordenone, Italië). Leefde en werkte in de Verenigde Staten --- Architectuur ; met betrekking tot auto's --- Architectuur ; Verenigde Staten ; 20ste eeuw ; Eero Saarinen --- Saarinen, Gottlieb Eliel 1873-1950 (°Rantsasalmi, Finland) --- Saarinen, Eero --- 72.07 --- Architecten. Stedenbouwkundigen A - Z --- Modern movement (Architecture) --- Business parks --- Saarinen, Eero, - 1910-1961 --- Warren (Mich.)

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Calder, Alexander --- Mondriaan, Piet --- 7.071 CALDER, ALEXANDER --- beeldhouwkunst --- schilderkunst --- draadsculpturen --- Mondriaan --- 73.07 --- Beeldhouwkunst ; 20ste eeuw ; Alexander Calder --- Kunst en beweging ; kunst en licht --- Calder, Alexander 1898-1976 (°Lawnton, Pennsylvania, Verenigde Staten) --- Draadsculpturen ; draadconstructies --- Kinetische kunst ; mobiles ; stabiles --- Mondriaan en Calder ; confrontatie --- Tentoonstellingscatalogi ; Den Haag ; Gemeentemuseum --- kunst --- Calder Alexander --- Mondriaan Piet --- Mondrian Piet --- twintigste eeuw --- Verenigde Staten --- kinetische kunst --- 7.071 CALDER --- 73.071 CALDER --- 7.071 CALDER, ALEXANDER Creatieve en vertolkende bezigheden in verband met kunst. Activiteiten van beroepsartiesten--CALDER, ALEXANDER --- Creatieve en vertolkende bezigheden in verband met kunst. Activiteiten van beroepsartiesten--CALDER, ALEXANDER --- Beeldhouwkunst ; beeldhouwers A - Z --- Exhibitions --- Sculpture [American ] --- 20th century --- Kinetic art --- Beeldhouwkunst --- 20e eeuw --- Touw --- Draad --- Calder, Alexander. --- Mondriaan, Piet.