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Calder Jewelry - Rower, Alexander S.C.; Rosenthal, Mark; Adlin, Jane; Calder Foundation, The - Yale University Press
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Dec 10, 2007
288 p., 9 1/2 x 12
59 b/w + 197 color illus.
ISBN: 9780300134285
ISBN-10: 0300134282
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Cloth
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- Art and Architecture
Distributed for the Calder Foundation, New York
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Calder Jewelry
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Edited by Alexander S. C. Rower and Holton Rower; With contributions by Mark Rosenthal and Jane Adlin; Photographs by Maria Robledo
     
Out of Print.
Alexander Calder’s jewelry has the same linear yet three-dimensional quality as his famous mobiles, and the parts that comprise each piece are hammered, shaped, and composed in a fashion that echoes the artist’s creation of his sculpture. Calder produced more than 1,500 pieces of jewelry, beginning in 1906 when he adorned his sister’s dolls with copper wire gathered from the streets. This use of non-precious materials and found objects guided his inventive jewelry technique, from his bohemian years of the 1920s and 1930s to the war years. His jewelry was coveted by the Surrealist coterie, and today is still highly sought after by collectors and museums.
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 jewelry; historic photographs of his jewelry 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 endeavors and in relation to the history of jewelry.
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.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida (February 23 – June 15, 2008) Philadelphia Museum of Art (July 12 – October 19, 2008) The Metropolitan Museum of Art (December 8, 2008 – March 1, 2009) Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (March 31 – June 22, 2009) OTHER TITLES BY THIS EDITOR
  
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