In 1926, Alexander Calder (American, 1898–1976) moved from New York to Paris and began to use time and motion as “materials” for animating line and space. Calder’s years in Paris—an understudied part of the artist’s career—is the focus of this marvelous publication, which coincides with a special exhibition at the Whitney Museum of Art, New York. A team of international scholars discussed Calder’s many innovations of this period, chief among them his abstract, motorized, and mobile works. They analyze the extended cast of Calder’s animated Circus, made in Paris between 1926 and 1931, and include previously unpublished photographs by Brassaï and André Kértesz of Calder and this beloved sculpture. The essays explore the intellectual, cultural, and artistic milieu of Paris at that time and Calder’s friendships with Miró, Mondrian, Duchamp, and Man Ray, among others. What emerges in this fascinating book is a nuanced and detailed understanding of how Calder’s distinctive career first took flight. Joan Simon is Curator at Large for the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Brigitte Léal is Curator of Historic Collections and the Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

302 pages, 322 illustrations (235 in full color). 9 3/4 in. x 11 in. Hardcover; clothbound, with jacket.

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