Screen LibraryAlexander Calder : minimal maximal /
"Calder's sculptural works can fit in the palm of a hand, or tower over a city square. This fascinating exhibition catalog examines how the artist's sensitivity to matters of size, scale and shape engaged audiences in a variety of ways. Few artists are able to work successfully on bot...
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Prestel,
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| Publisher Address: | Munich : |
| Publication Dates: | [2021] |
| Literature type: | Book |
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"Calder's sculptural works can fit in the palm of a hand, or tower over a city square. This fascinating exhibition catalog examines how the artist's sensitivity to matters of size, scale and shape engaged audiences in a variety of ways. Few artists are able to work successfully on both large and small scales, but throughout his career Calder brilliantly moved from the miniature to the monumental and back again. This publication focuses on the enormous stabiles he created mostly for public places, as well as his elegant hanging mobiles in sheet metal, miniature standing mobiles, and chess sets, shedding light on the social and performative aspects of his work. Essays explore how Calder approached the effects of kinetics and space, solidity and transparency, stasis and activity, volume and void. The book also looks at how Calder's small-scale sculptures echoed the public spectacle of his larger pieces, creating a "private drama" that encouraged direct participation. Whatever the size, Calder's works employed movement and interaction in unpredictable ways, and this enlightening book helps readers appreciate the important continuity of his oeuvre." -- |
| Item Description: | Catalogue of an exhibition that was held in the Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, from August 22, 2021 to February 13, 2022. |
| Carrier Form: | 175 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: |
9783791379296 3791379291 |
| Index Number: | N6537 |
| CLC: | J305.712-28 |
| Call Number: | J305.712-28/C146 |
| Contents: | Grußwort = Greeting / Gabriele Quandt -- Grußwort = Greeting / Alexander S. C. Rower -- Vorwort = Foreword / Joachim Jäger, Udo Kittelmann, Maike Steinkamp -- Der Raum als Bühne = Space as stage / Joachim Jäger, Maike Steinkamp -- Innerer und äußerer Raum = Inner and outer space / Robert Slifkin -- Calder und das Problem des Maßstabs = Calder and the problem of scale / Elizabeth Hutton Turner -- Calders Kathedralen = Calder's cathedrals / Beryl Gilothwest -- Die Mobiles. Für sich im Raum = The mobiles: for themselves in space / Nina Schallenberg -- Ästhetische Spiele = Aesthetic games / Kaitlyn A. Kramer -- Têtes et queue / Maike Stainkamp. |