Calder: the Conquest of Time : The Early Years, 1898-1940 / by Jed Perl

Knopf, 2017. Hardcover. Remainder mark. VG/VG. 

Born into a family of artists, Alexander Calder forged important friendships with a who's who of 20th-century artists, including Miró, Duchamp, Braque, and Mondrian. This volume moves through his early years studying engineering to his first artistic triumphs in Paris in the late 1920s and his emergence as a leader in the international avant-garde. His marriage in 1931 to the free-spirited Louisa James -- a great-niece of Henry James -- is a richly romantic story, related here with a wealth of detail and nuance.,Born into a family of artists, Alexander Calder forged important friendships with a who's who of 20th-century artists, including Miró, Duchamp, Braque, and Mondrian. This volume moves through his early years studying engineering to his first artistic triumphs in Paris in the late 1920s and his emergence as a leader in the international avant-garde. His marriage in 1931 to the free-spirited Louisa James -- a great-niece of Henry James -- is a richly romantic story, related here with a wealth of detail and nuance.