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The volume documents the profound and transformative impact of Alexander Calder, one of the most revolutionary artists of the 20th century. Calder (1898-1976) in fact changed the way we perceive and interact with sculpture, introducing the fourth dimension of time in art with its legendary mobiles - a term coined by Marcel Duchamp which in French refers to both "motion" and "motive" - and exploring the volumes and voids in the stabiles, his stationary objects, so named by Jean Arp. Over thirty masterpieces made between 1930 and 1960 - Calder’s most innovative and prolific years - are brought together in these pages from the earliest abstractions orsphériques to a magnificent selection of /mobiles/, stabiles andstanding mobiles of various sizes, as well as a wide range of Constellations, a term proposed by Duchamp and James Johnson Sweeney for the artist’s beloved objects made of wood and wire in 1943, a period when metal was scarce due to the Second World War.

CONTENTS

Calder. Sculpting Time
Carmen Giménez and Ana Mingot Comenge

SELECTION FROM CALDER’S AUTOBIOGRAPHY
Mondrian
Calder: ses mobiles
Stabiles
The Spanish Pavilion
Constellations
Pas nobles mobiles
CALDER'S MOBILES. JEAN-PAUL SARTRE

CALDER’S WRITINGS AND QUOTATIONS
How Can Art Be Realized?
Objects to Art Being Static, So He Keeps It in Motion
Dichiarazione in Modern Painting and Sculpture
Mobiles
17 mobiles by Alexander Calder
À Propos of Measuring a Mobile
What Abstract Art Means to Me
Statement in 4 Masters Exhibition
How to Do It
WORKS

APPENDIX
Selected Chronology
List of Exhibited Works

EDITED BYCarmen Giménez and Ana Mingot Comenge