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Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 8
Lexile measure
830L
Language
English
Description
When seventh-grader Calder Pillay disappears from a remote English village--along with an Alexander Calder sculpture to which he has felt strangely drawn--his friends Petra and Tommy fly from Chicago to help his father find him.
Author
Pub. Date
2008.
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.6 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
As a boy, Sandy was always fiddling with odds and ends, making objects for friends. When he got older he started creating wire sculptures. Sandy made a lion. Next came a lion cage. Before he knew it, he had an entire circus and was traveling between Paris and New York performing a brand-new kind of art for amazed audiences.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"The concluding volume of the first authorized biography of one of the most important, influential, and beloved of 20th century sculptors, and one of the greatest artists in the cultural history of America--a vividly written, illuminating account of his triumphant later years. The concluding volume of this magnificent biography begins during World War II, when Calder--known to all as Sandy--and his wife, Louisa, opened their home to the stream of...
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Alexander Calder is the definitive portrait of one of the pre-eminent artists of the 20th century, and the inventor of an art form, the mobile. This acclaimed film shows Calder at work in his studio and never-before-seen archival films and photographs. It includes contemporary shooting of dozens of works, and features interviews with Arthur Miller, Ellsworth Kelly, I.M. Pei, Brendan Gill, Marla Prather, David Ross, Calder's daughters and grandson,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved and widely admired artists of the twentieth century. Anybody who has ever set foot in a museum knows him as the inventor of the mobile, America's unique contribution to modern art. But only now, forty years after the artist's death, is the full story of his life being told in this biography,which is based on unprecedented access to Calder's letters and papers as well as scores of interviews. Jed Perl shows...
12) Alexander Calder
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2003]
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.9 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
Briefly examines the life and work of the twentieth-century American sculptor, describing and giving examples of his art.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"The East Building of the National Gallery of Art is a constantly changing setting where the expanding collection of 20th-century art on view includes paintings, sculpture, and works on paper by American artists such as Calder, Smith, de Kooning, Bearden, and Lichtenstein."--Container.
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