Alexander Calder
Subtitle: performing sculpture
By: edited by Achim Borchardt-Hume ; with contributions by Ann Coxon [and others]
Contributors: Borchardt-Hume, Achim, editor; Coxon, Ann, writer of supplementary textual content; Tate Modern (Gallery)
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780300219159
Subjects: American Kinetic sculpture; Exhibitions
Description: Provides detailed insight into that pioneering process through reproductions of personal drawings and notes and new research from a wide range of renowned scholars, furthering our understanding of the remarkable depth of Calder's beloved mobile sculptures and entrenching his status as an icon of modernism.
Notes: First published 2015 by Tate Publishing, London.

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at Tate Modern, London November 11, 2015 to April 3, 2016.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 226-227) and index.
Table of contents: title: Foreword; title: Performance or post-performance / Penelope Curtis; title: Composing motions: staging Calder's "performing sculpture" / Ann Coxon; title: Calder's carnival / Alex J. Taylor; title: Between Paris and New York: fountains, fluidity, politics / Marko Daniel; title: Wind chimes of modernity: Calder's 1948 trip to Brazil / Sérgio B. Martins; title: Earle Brown's Calder Piece and Alexander Calder's Chef d'orchestre / Thomas Fichter; title: Work in Progress or "my life in nineteen minutes" / Vassilis Oikonomopoulos; title: Plates; title: Select chronology / Alexander S.C. Rower; title: Select bibliography; title: Exhibited works; title: Credits; title: Index.