Alexander Calder: Multum in Parvo

Calder, Alexander and Jed Perl, Paul Goldberger

ISBN 10: 0986060658 / ISBN 13: 9780986060656

Published by Dominque Levy, 2015

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Hardcover without dustjacket as issued, 164 pages, as new condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Alexander Calder: Multum in Parvo
• Publisher: Dominque Levy
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0986060658
• ISBN 13: 9780986060656
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

Multum in Parvo highlights the complex relationship between scale and size in the oeuvre of Alexander Calder (1898–1976) over a period of more than 30 years.

As its title--translating to “much in little”--implies, the volume features over 40 rare small-scale sculptures, ranging from the size of a thumb to 30 inches tall, all of which feature the same physical qualities as Calder’s largest mobiles in the most miniature of detail.

In addition to archival material, installation photography of the sculptures in the environment designed for them by architects Santiago and Gabriel Calatrava, and original architectural sketches, the book also includes commissioned essays by Jed Perl, art historian and author currently at work on the first full-length biography of Alexander Calder, and Paul Goldberger, Pulitzer Prize-winning architecture critic, as well as poems by Karl Shapiro and John Updike.