Ivy Sanders Schneider– In a 1964 photograph of Alexander Calder’s retrospective at the Guggenheim, children are touching the sculptures. They are blowing on them, pressing against them, kneeling on them. A 1959 photograph of an exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam shows men and women reaching up to push
On this day in 1898, artist Alexander Calder was born in Lawnton, Pennsylvania. Though the Press has no mobiles to erect in his honor (the University already took care of that for us), we do have a fine selection of books for fans of his work. The Surreal Calder focuses
Writing for The New Republic, Jed Perl lists “half a dozen remarkable books about the visual arts published during the year.” Two of his six favorites were published by Yale University Press this past year: Second Diasporist Manifesto: A New Kind of Long Poem in 615 Free Verses by R.
In an article on “their favorite books of 2007,” New York Times art and architecture critics write “there is more to art books than gorgeous illustrations.” As an example of a book that is more than just “gorgeous illustrations, they name Yale’s The Gates of Paradise: Lorenzo Ghiberti’s Renaissance Masterpiece,