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Artist:
Calder, Alexander 1898-1976  Search this
Smith, David 1906-1965  Search this
Author:
Turner, Elizabeth Hutton 1952- Alexander Calder, David Smith, and the inventor's fantasy  Search this
Hamill, Sarah Ugo Mulas and the photography of modern sculpture  Search this
Host institution:
Galerie Hauser & Wirth  Search this
Subject:
Calder, Alexander 1898-1976  Search this
Smith, David 1906-1965  Search this
Mulas, Ugo  Search this
Physical description:
80 pages : illustrations (some color); 35 cm
Type:
Books
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
Date:
2017
Notes:
"Alexander Calder/David Smith is published on the occasion of the exhibition: Alexander Calder / David Smith, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, 12 June-16 September 2017."
Contents:
Foreword / Iwan Wirth -- Introduction / Peter Stevens and Alexander S.C. Rower -- Alexander Calder, David Smith and the inventor's fantasy / Elizabeth Hutton Turner -- Ugo Mulas and the photography of modern sculpture / Sarah Hamill -- Alexander Calder/David Smith
Summary:
This monograph brings together works by the two artists, not only shedding light on the richness of their individual practices, but also offering an opportunity to clearly see some shared interests and how much these artists actually had to say to each other. Contributions by Sarah Hamill and Elizabeth Hutton Turner inform about these artists' paths and their encounters and collaboration with photographer Ugo Mulas. Hamill looks closely at the many photographs Mulas took of Calder' and Smith's sculpture at the 1962 Festival of the Two Worlds, in Spoleto. Turner explores how and why Calder and Smith found common ground in their shared identification with the American culture of invention. Exhibition: Hauser & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland (12.06.-16.09.2017).
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_sil_1096629