Celebrated for mobiles and stabiles that enliven city squares and museums around the world, Alexander Calder (1898-1976) is not widely recognized as a portraitist. Throughout his career, however, Calder created portraits of a wide variety of subjects: well-known entertainment and political figures, sports stars, artist friends, family members, and himself. Some of these portraits are traditional likenesses in oil on canvas or ink on paper, but most explore new conceptions of form and identity in the medium of sculpture. Executed over a fifty-year period from the early 1920s to the 1970s, Calder's portraits reveal a real talent for portraiture, for encapsulating individual character traits in both representational and abstract art, and in two and three dimensions. Calder recorded his friendships in a remarkably vivid and generous way. Through his relationship with his subjects he continually defined and redefined himself, and his oeuvre in the genre of portraiture became a life narrative.
Rezensionen / Stimmen
Calder's Portraits sheds light on an often-overlooked aspect of Alexander Calder's career and on broader narratives of twentieth-century American culture. * Antiques and Fine Art *
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Verlagsort
Verlagsgruppe
Maße
Höhe: 316 mm
Breite: 240 mm
Dicke: 18 mm
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ISBN-13
978-0-9788460-9-1 (9780978846091)
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Schweitzer Klassifikation
Barbara Zabel is professor of art history at Connecticut College and author, most recently, of Assembling Art: The Machine and the American Avant-Garde.
Foreword
Introduction: Constructed Identities
Chapter 1: The Self as Subject
Chapter 2: The Stage
Chapter 3: Sports Fans and Icons
Chapter 4: Friends and Colleagues
Notes
Bibliography
Image Credits
Index
