No comments about Calder: Gouaches 1942-1976.

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No comments about Julien Levy: Memoir Of An Art Gallery (Artworks).

No comments about The Essential Alexander Calder.

2 comments about Alexander Calder (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists).

1. I purchased this delightful book for my budding young artist, Noah (age 6) after we watched a PBS special on Alexander Calder. We were not disappointed. Noah loved the charming cartoons depicting young Alexander's life and thoroughly enjoyed the photographs of the artist's mobiles and stabiles. The book provided an excellent basis for talking about Calder's work of course, but it also provided insights into how a young artist develops his or her talents through the years. The quality of both the pictures and text is extremely high. This book will not patronize your child in the least. I would recommend this to any family with young children, but it would also be a valuable addition to any school library.



2. Very good information book for elementary children. Children in primary grades will need an adult to read parts aloud. Great information if you are doing projects with wire sculpture or mobiles.

1 comments about Alexander Calder (Life and Work of...).

1. As a whole, Adam Schaefer's "The Life and Work Of..." series of books on artists, aimed at young readers, is excellent; this particular selection, however, lacked the enthusiasm of most other titles. The best part of the book discusses Calder's work creating circus animal sculptures, and this topic will surely appeal to students. The latter portion of the book, however, is devoted to the artist's abstract sculptures, and considering the audience level for which this book was written, the author does not quite bring the genre to life for a young mind unfamiliar with such terms and concepts. More attention, perhaps, should have been paid to Calder's mobile sculptures and the effect his popularization of this invention had on the world in general.

2 comments about Calder/ Miro.

1. it is always interesting to see how artists and friends influence one another and here is another brilliant examination. alexander calder and joan miro couldn't have been more different, yet, it seems that this factor propelled their friendship. they true friends from the beginning the artists, and their families, remained close throughout their careers. often collaborating on works, sharing ideas or simply exchanging artistic gifts their friendship shines through to their art. this show brings commonalities and collaborations together under one roof (some for the first time ever) and explores the influences behind the objects. bravo to the curators for bringing this to our attention and thanks for the fantastic catalogue that accompanies it!



2. This is a wonderful catalogue that accompanies the landmark exhibition that was held at the Beyeler Foundation in Basel, Switzerland in 2004, and at the Phillips Collection in Washington. Apart from the groundbreaking comparative study of both artists, which is very well written and highly informative (a trove of previously unpublished documents), the illustrations are fantastic. One of the most moving series by Miro, the Constellations, some 40 watercolors painted in 1941, are wonderfully echoed in a three-dimensional space by Calder's delicate mobiles of the same period. Highly recommended.

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1 comments about Three Alexander Calders: A Family Memoir.

1. One particular work of Alexander Stirling Calder has inspired me to live, learn and write. For that, I am eternally grateful. His statue of Leif Eirkisson, possibly the most famous statue of the Norse Explorer in the world, is a true tribute to the power of the Viking Age.

No comments about Calder, the artist, the work (Archives Maeght).