CALDER: THE CONQUEST OF SPACE - The Later Years: 1940-1976
Calder. Dreaming in Equilibrium
Description
In Calder: The Conquest of Space, the later life of Alexander Calder unfolds like a constellation in motion, where each work seems to defy gravity as much as the century itself. From the shadows of war to the radiance of great world expositions, his art rises-monumental yet weightless-bridging continents, weaving between chaos and harmony. Beside Louisa, muse and accomplice, he turns existence into a bohemian dance, alive with friendships, struggles, and fierce bursts of freedom. His mobiles, those fragile architectures of air, become a universal language, inscribing his name into dictionaries as well as memory. Through the luminous prose of Jed Perl, this biography reveals the rare alchemy of a man who made of space not a void, but a poetic conquest.
Description & Features
- Characteristics
Book in English version and second part of the book A Life of Calder
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Dimensions
- 25 x 20 x 5
- Publication year
- 2020
- Number of pages
- 688
- EAN
- 9780451494115