Calder, Miro
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,History & Criticism
Calder, Miro Details
About the Author Elizabeth Hutton Turner is senior curator at the Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.; Oliver Wick is guest curator at the Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland. Read more
Reviews
This is a wonderful catalogue that accompanies the landmark exhibition that was held at the Beyeler Foundation in Basel, Switzerland in 2004, and at the Phillips Collection in Washington. Apart from the groundbreaking comparative study of both artists, which is very well written and highly informative (a trove of previously unpublished documents), the illustrations are fantastic. One of the most moving series by Miro, the Constellations, some 40 watercolors painted in 1941, are wonderfully echoed in a three-dimensional space by Calder's delicate mobiles of the same period. Highly recommended.