This beautiful "Art Display" book is beautiful inside and out! "Calder Jewelry" features around 300 bracelets, brooches, necklaces, and rings, all of which are exquisitely reproduced in newly commissioned photographs. Also included are examples of Calder's inventory drawings; the boxes he made to store the jewellery; historic photographs of his jewellery worn by notable patrons, art collectors, and artists (for instance, Peggy Guggenheim and Georgia O'Keeffe); and a chronology. Essays by Mark Rosenthal and Jane Adlin discuss the relationship of these objects to the artist's other endeavours and in relation to the history of jewellery. Features 287 pages of pure beauty. Beautiful color pages! 287 Pages of Inspiration!

Calder Jewelry

Calder, Alexander

Calder Foundation

Excerpt from The Man of the Future: An Investigation of the Laws Which Determine HappinessMy second great trial was, as I have said, of a spiritual nature. Naturally of a serious disposition, I had learned by experience the importance of individual attention to the affairs of the soul, as well as to the health of the body.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Man of the Future: An Investigation of the Laws Which Determine Happiness (Classic Reprint)

Self-Help

Motivational

Forgotten Books

Alexander Calder, the renowned sculptor and inventor of mobiles, here brings his characteristic simplicity of line and spirit of movement to the art of animal sketching. The purpose of the book is to help the student to draw animals as he or she sees them. Noting and practicing the way Mr. Calder captures the emotions and attitudes of animals in a few quick lines, the student can quickly obtain a lasting groundwork in animal sketching that will before long become second nature. These full-body sketches and enlarged details, in rapid, expressive brush-and-ink, of animals from the farm, the zoo, wildlife, and the home, in characteristic poses and movements, reveal both the action and portrait aspects of the art. There are 12 sketches of horses in action (drawing wagon or plough, racing, etc.); 10 drawings of cats, luxuriously asleep or alertly watchful, stretching or crouching; 14 drawings of dogs (many different breeds) in a variety of poses ― lying down, sleeping, sitting, running, sniffing the air, feeding puppies; 11 drawings of lions and other big cats, pacing, lying down, or crouching; 7 sketches of monkeys, jumping and gesticulating; 23 drawings of deer, stooping, sitting, running, etc.; 27 drawings of birds of many different species ― owls sitting, ducks waddling, etc.; and 18 sketches of cows grazing, sitting, swishing tails, and feeding calves. Also included are drawings of seals, elephants, squirrels, kangaroos, and a bear. Because of the simplicity of Mr. Calder's approach to sketching, this book can easily be used by even the youngest of students. There are no difficult techniques to master here, no roundabout methods of construction, but just an insistence on drawing things as the student sees them, with undogmatic (and delightful) assistance from an undisputed master of the simple expressive line. It is unlikely that there is any more pleasant way to study such a fundamental branch of pictorial art. Unabridged and unaltered republication of third (1929) edition.

Animal Sketching (Dover Art Instruction)

Arts & Photography

Drawing

Dover Publications

An anthology, first published as a limited edition in 1955, featuring more than fifty line drawings by the sculptor, accompanied by literary excerpts on animals of every type

Bestiary, A

Study & Teaching

Pantheon

A dazzling collection of quotations from the modern American artist whose mobiles are beloved worldwide\nCalder-isms is a collection of fascinating, irreverent, and often profound quotations from the influential modern American sculptor Alexander Calder (1898–1976), who is most famous for his invention of what his friend Marcel Duchamp dubbed the “mobile.” Often suspended from ceilings, these sculptures feature abstract elements, frequently painted in bold colors, that move and balance in changing harmony. Calder’s art was dynamic, unconventional, and filled with vitality—qualities also displayed by his words, which combine the wisdom of a philosopher with the ingenuity of a true original. Taken from interviews, writings, and other sources, the quotations in Calder-isms offer memorable insights into Calder’s life, mind, and, above all, art. 
“Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an intensely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion.” “That visit to Mondrian gave me the shock that converted me. It was like the baby being slapped to make his lungs start working.” “[A mobile] has no utility and no meaning. It is simply beautiful. It has a great emotional effect if you understand it. Of course if it meant anything it would be easier to understand, but it would not be worthwhile.” “A title is just like the license plate on the back of a car. You use it to say which one you’re talking about.” “People think monuments should come out of the ground, never out of the ceiling, but mobiles can be monumental too.” “Bad taste always boomerangs.”

Calder-isms

History & Criticism

Princeton University Press

Un & d'autres chiffres : avec Alexandre Calder - Premiers pas avec les grands artistes

Children's Books

Geography & Cultures

PHAIDON FRANCE

A well-known artist's sketches of animals are accompained by brief text explaining how to capture some of the elusive qualities of wildlife.

Animal sketching

Sterling Pub. Co.

The striking mobile sculptures of Alexander Calder are among the most notable and original creations of twentieth-century art. Combining for the first time movement and sculpture, these works represent a new and highly influential departure from the practices of the past. Yet Calder's work ranges much more widely. This lavishly illustrated book reflects the full diversity of Calder's oeuvre and explores an outstanding selection of more than two hundred of his works.Based on access to family archives, an overview of Calder's entire career, and contributions from the artist's grandson Alexander S. C. Rower, this book for the first time presents the artist in a serious light and proper historical context.Without ignoring the playful and whimsical dimension of his work, the book emphasizes Calder's role as one of the great formal innovators of the century. Each work of art selected from those produced during his prolific career is reproduced here in color and is accompanied by compar

Alexander Calder, 1898-1976

Prather, Marla

Rower, A. S. C.

National Gallery Of Art (u.s.)

Individual Artists

Natl Gallery of Art

Klaus Gunther Perls (1912-2008) was born in Berlin, Germany, where his parents were art dealers. He studied art history in Munich, but after the Nazis came to power moved to Basel, Switzerland and completed his studies. In 1935, Klaus moved to New York and opened the Perls Galleries on East 58th Street near Madison Avenue in New York. Initially, he dealt in works by Maurice Utrillo, Maurice de Vlaminck and Raoul Dufy; After the war, the Perls focused on French art from the School of Paris. They moved their gallery to a town house at 1016 Madison Avenue, near 78th Street, where they lived on the upper floors in 1954. They worked there until 1997. Perls was one of the founders, with Perls, of the Art Dealers Association of America. Perls and Calder were close friends for decades and they had an extensive private collection of Calders.

Alexander Calder: The Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Klaus G. Perls

Calder: Four maquettes, two stabiles & a little bird too : 19 September - 12 October 2002, Ameringer Yohe Fine Art

Ameringer Yohe Fine Art

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