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Calder - The Conquest Of Time. The Early Years 1898-1940

Alfred A Knopf 2017 ISBN 9780307272720 Acqn 29558
Hb 19x24cm 370pp col ills £11.95

The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder: an

authoritative and revelatory achievement, based on a wealth of letters and papers never before
available, and written by one of our most renowned art critics.

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 us why Calder was-and remains-a
barrier breaker, an avant-garde artist with mass appeal.
This beautifully written, deeply researched book opens with Calder's wonderfully peripatetic
upbringing in Philadelphia, California, and New York. Born in 1898 into a family of artists-his
father was a well-known sculptor, his mother a painter and a pioneering feminist-Calder went on
as an adult to forge important friendships with a who's who of twentieth-century artists, including
Joan Miro, Marcel Duchamp, Georges Braque, and Piet Mondrian. We move through Calder's
early years studying engineering to his first artistic triumphs in Paris in the late 1920s, and to his
emergence as a leader in the international abstract avant-garde. His marriage in 1931 to the free-
spirited Louisa James-she was a great-niece of Henry James-is a richly romantic story, related
here with a wealth of detail and nuance.

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Derek Boshier - Re-Think Re-Entry

Thames And Hudson 2015 ISBN 9780500093887 Acqn 29559
Hb 24x29cm 228pp 280ills 190col £19.95

Taking as his subject icons of consumerism and American popular culture, Derek Boshier made
his name in the 1960s as one of the key proponents of British Pop Art, along with contemporaries
David Hockney, Peter Blake and Pauline Boty. Since then, his output has been exceptionally
diverse, including collage, book design, set design and illustration, as well as photography, film
and sculpture.

Derek Boshier: Rethink/Re-entry traces Boshier's formidable career. Beginning with his rise to
prominence in the early 1960s, it follows his abandonment of painting in the 1970s and his
experimentation with new modes of expression, such as collage and illustration, as exemplified
by his iconic sleeve design for David Bowie's album Lodger and his drawings for CLASH 2nd
Songbook

The chapters on the 1980s detail Boshier's return to painting, in particular his adoption of the
Texan cowboy as the subject for his 'Cowboy' series. The 1990s saw him relocate to Los
Angeles, where he encountered a culture and iconography that provided rich source material for
his later works.

Featuring essays by leading academics, curators, critics and practitioners - each of which is
introduced by a new Boshier artwork - this is the definitive monograph of this most distinctive of
great British artists.

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Warhol And Mapplethorpe - Guise And Dolls

Yale University Press 2015 ISBN 9780300214338 Acqn 29560
Hb 25x29cm 172pp 180ills 90col £19.95

A landmark examination of iconic and provocative portraits by Warhol and Mapplethorpe,

presented side by side and in depth for the first time

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) and Robert Mapplethorpe (1946-1989) are well known for significant
work in portraiture and self-portraiture that challenged gender roles and notions of femininity,
masculinity, and androgyny. This exciting and original book is the first to consider the two artists
together, examining the powerful portraits they created during the vibrant and tumultuous era
bookended by the Stonewall riots and the AIDS crisis. Several important bodies of work are
featured, including Warhol's Ladies and Gentlemen series of drag queen portraits and his
collaboration with Christopher Makos on Altered Image, in which Warhol was photographed in
makeup and wigs, and Mapplethorpe's photographs of Patti Smith and of female body builder
Lisa Lyon. These are explored alongside numerous other paintings, photographs, and films that
demonstrate the artists' engagement with gender, identity, beauty, performance, and sexuality,
including their own self-portraits and portraits of one another.

Essays trace the convergences and divergences of Warhol and Mapplethorpe's work, and
examine the historical context of the artists' projects as well as their lasting impact on
contemporary art and queer culture. Firsthand accounts by the artists' collaborators and subjects
reveal details into the making and exhibition of some of the works presented here. With an
illustrated timeline highlighting key moments in the artists' careers, and more than 90 color plates
of their arresting pictures, this book provides a fascinating study of two of the most compelling
figures in 20th-century art.

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