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Calder : the conquest of time : the early years, 1898-1940

by Jed Perl

A biography of the sculptor who invented the mobile, tracing his transition from engineering to the international abstract avant-garde. The text examines his artistic development and personal relationships within the twentieth-century art scenes of Paris, London, and New York.

Accession 24405 ISBN 9780300233315 Publisher Yale University Press
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