Calder Jewelry

Calder, Alexander and Alexander S. C. Rower; Mark Rosenthal; Holton Rower; Jane Adlin

ISBN 10: 0300134282 / ISBN 13: 9780300134285

Published by Calder Foundation, Norton Museum of Art, and Yale University Press, 2008

About this Item

Hardcover with dustjacket, 288 pages; as new condition; clean and crisp; no internal marks. Foreign shipping may be extra.

Seller Inventory # CaCaCa600

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Calder Jewelry
• Publisher: Calder Foundation, Norton Museum of Art, and Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300134282
• ISBN 13: 9780300134285
• Binding: Hardcover
• Seller catalogs:
  • Art Since 1945

About this title

Synopsis

Calder Jewelry features more than 450 bracelets, brooches, necklaces, and rings, photographed in still life by Maria Robledo. Also included are Calder's inventory drawings, boxes he made to transport and store the jewelry, historic photographs of his exhibitions and of jewelry worn by notable collectors and artists, and an extensive chronology. Essays discuss the relationship of these objects to the artist's other endeavors and in relation to the history of adornment.

About the Author

Alexander S. C. Rower is Director of the Calder Foundation and grandson of the artist. Mark Rosenthal is Adjunct Curator, Contemporary Art, Norton Museum of Art. Jane Adlin is Associate Curator, Department of 19th-Century Modern and Contemporary Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Renown still life and portrait photographer, Maria Robledo is a frequent contributor to The New York Times and Town & Country.