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Author
Publisher
Lee & Low Books
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
"A biography of African American sculptor Augusta Savage, who overcame many obstacles as a young woman to become a premier female sculptor of the Harlem Renaissance. Includes an afterword about Savage's adult life and works, plus photographs"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Alexander Calder is the definitive portrait of the inventor of the mobile. This acclaimed film shows Alexander Calder at work in his studio, and features never-before-seen archival films and photographs. It includes contemporary shooting of dozens of works, seen as he meant them to be viewed, in dynamic motion.
6) David Smith
Author
Series
Publisher
Phaidon Press
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
One of the pre-eminent American sculptors of the twentieth century, Smith was a powerful innovator. He introduced the industrial process of welding, and was able to manipulate metal into extraordinarily imaginative and varied compositions, using it literally to "draw in space." Pachner also sheds valuable light on Smith's prolific output of drawing, sketching, writing and photography.
Publisher
Monacelli Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In this, the first monograph of Richard Filipowski, a major figure bridging the Bauhaus and American midcentury modernism finally gets his due. Richard Filipowski (1923-2008) was among the most gifted polymaths in the annals of American modernism. Whether as a painter, sculptor, or designer of furniture and jewelry, Filipowski developed a lush, abstract, and amazingly consistent visual language that marks him among the finest figures of midcentury...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
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...
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