Presents the life and representative works of artist and sculptor Alexander Calder against the world of contemporary art.

Calder: Mobilist, Ringmaster, Innovator

Biographies & Memoirs

Bourdon, David

Arts & Literature

Atheneum

Dust Jacket is in Very Good condition. Corners bumped, otherwise like new.

Warhol

Harry N.Abrams, Inc.

A study of the innovative pop artist Andy Warhol by his close friend and confidant, David Bourdon. Prepared during the artist's lifetime and with his co-operation, it is described as an intimate look at the man behind the silkscreened image.

Arts & Photography

History & Criticism

Harry N. Abrams

Moving across space and time, from prehistory to the present and around the world, this fascinating volume explores the many ways in which the earth has been transformed by human effort. In discerning text, more than 150 fabulous photographs - many of them taken by some of the world's premier aerial photographers - and 21 arresting drawings, paintings, and other artworks, Designing the Earth examines such diverse works as clay dwellings in Chad and Mali, adobe pueblos in the American Southwest, mud-brick ziggurats in Babylon, ancient Egyptian funerary monuments, subterranean aqueducts in Iran, Native American effigy mounds, the Nazca lines of Peru, artificial islands in Japan, the Great Wall of China, Mount Rushmore, and earth-sheltered housing by Frank Lloyd Wright, as well as earthworks by contemporary artists such as Michael Heizer and Andy Goldsworthy. By considering the works in a larger design context, and by discussing their meaning, import, and use, author David Bourdon opens the reader's eyes to the formal and functional characteristics of earthworks around the world as he explores how people on different continents, unknown to each other, demonstrated remarkable similarities in the recontouring of their landscapes.

Designing the Earth: The Human Impulse to Shape Nature

Architecture

Pub Overstock Unlimited Inc

Examines the life and work of the famous artist

Individual Artists

Abradale/Abrams

The roots of an extraordinary pursuit 
Never before has a comprehensive survey been brought together to demonstrate the developments of Christo and Jeanne-Claude's early works. 
Beginning with pieces created in Paris and Europe between 1958 and 1964 -Packages, Wrapped Objects, Oil Barrels Structures, Show Cases and Store Fronts, the first proposals for Urban Temporary Objects, and Wrapped Public Buildings, 1961 - the book continues to the early 60s, a period during which Christo and Jeanne-Claude began moving their work out of the studio into open spaces to involve the general public with their art, such as the realizations of Dockside Packages, Cologne Harbor, 1961, and Wall of Oil Barrels-Iron Curtain, Rue Visconti, Paris 1961-62. 
Finally, the book features the art created after they moved to New York in 1964, including preparatory studies (drawings, collages, and scale models of proposals for urban and rural temporary works) and realizations of the first Wrapped Public Buildings, Kunsthalle Bern Wrapped, 1968, Wrapped Tower and Wrapped Fountain, Spoleto 1968, 5,600 Cubicmeter Air Package, documenta IV, Kassel 1967-68, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Wrapped, 1969. 
Early Works 1958-1969 ends with Wrapped Coast, One Million Square Feet, Little Bay, Sydney, Australia 1968-69. The monumental wrapping of that coastline was only a taste of things to come in the following decades. 
**The publication of Christo and Jeanne-Claude: Early Works 1958-1969 coincides with the exhibition of 384 early works from the collections of 39 museums and 121 private collectors in Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, England, France, Germany, Greece, Holland, Israel, Italy, Japan, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States and Venezuela.

Christo & Jeanne Claude: Early Works 1958-1969

Reference

Tolnay, Alexander

Foreign Language Study & Reference

Taschen America, LLC

Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Umbrella Project in 1991 was the most ambitious and expensive project they have ever undertaken. 1340 blue six metre umbrellas were assembled and erected throughout a narrow valley in rural Japan. 7000 yellow umbrellas were similarly prepared across the Pacific in a dry expanse of Californian land. After months of gruelling process, the two countries united as the forest of umbrellas were opened simultaneously on both continents.

Christo & Jeanne-Claude: Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971-1995

Christo

Jeanne-Claude

Volz, Wolfgang

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Calder: Mobilist, Ringmaster, Innovator

Warhol

Warhol

Designing the Earth: The Human Impulse to Shape Nature

Warhol

Christo & Jeanne Claude: Early Works 1958-1969

Christo & Jeanne-Claude: Wrapped Reichstag, Berlin, 1971-1995