Archive

Degand, Leon. “Essai d’Integration des Arts.” Art d’Aujourd’hui, no. 6 (September 1954).

Galerie Maeght, Paris. Aix. Saché. Roxbury. 1953–54. Exhibition catalogue. 1954. Derriére Le Miroir, nos. 69–70 (13 November 1954). Poem by Henri Pichette; text by Frank Elgar.

Dunbar, Jack. “Letter from the Tenth Triennale.” Industrial Design, no. 5 (October 1954).

Jotterand, Franck. “Alexandre Calder ou la sculpture en mouvement.” France Illustration, no. 416 (November 1954).

Spirale (November 1954).

“The Children’s Labyrinth.” Interiors (November 1954).

“Il labirinto dei ragazzi.” Casabella Continuita, no. 203 (November–December 1954).

Crespelle, J.-P. “Avec ses ‘mobiles’ l’Américain Calder s’apprête à revolutionner le cadre de notre vie.” France-Soir, 13 November 1954.

Vancouver Art Gallery. The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, A Selection from the Museum Collection. Exhibition catalogue. 1954.

“Calder le sculpteur qui voudrait être le Bon Dieu.” Jours de France (18–25 November 1954).

Buchwald, Art. “Europe’s Lighter Side.” New York Herald Tribune, 18 November 1954.

Jouffroy, Alain. “Calder.” Arts (24 & 30 November 1954).

“Galeries d’Art.” France-Observateur (25 November 1954).

“Bewegingskunst die een beweging kan worden.” (Publication unknown), 26 November 1954.

Villanueva, Carlos Raul. “El Centro Comunal de la Ciudad Universitaria de Caracas.” Ver y Estimar, no. 2 (December 1954).

“XT: The Shapes to Come.” Fortune (December 1954).

Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris. Le Dessin Contemporain Aux États-Unis. Exhibition catalogue. 1954.

The Lefevre Gallery, London. Mobiles by Calder. Exhibition catalogue. 1955.

Le Grand Cirque Calder 1927 (1955). 16mm, color, sound (French); 45 min. Directed by Jean Painlevé with Geneviève “Ginette” Hamon, assistant; cinematography by Claude Beausoleil; sound direction by Freddy Baume.

Wilbur, Richard, ed. A Bestiary. New York: Pantheon Books, 1955.

“Alexander Calder.” Informations et Documents (1 January 1955).

City Art Museum of St. Louis, Missouri. A Tribute to Curt Valentin. Exhibition catalogue. 1955.

The Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. The One Hundred and Fiftieth Anniversary Exhibition. Exhibition catalogue. 1955.

Lebel, Robert. “Calder et la nouvelle sculpture.” Preuves (February 1955).

“Inventor of Mobile Sculpture.” Times, 7 February 1955.

“From Shantiniketan.” Anandabazaar Patrika (Bengal), 1 March 1955.

Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris. Modern Art in the United States. Exhibition catalogue. 1955.

“Something for the Breeze.” Mechanix Illustrated (April 1955).

Galerie Denise René, Paris. Le Mouvement. Exhibition catalogue. 1955.

R. V. G. “Le Mouvement: Propositions pour une plastique cinetique.” Les Beaux-Arts a Paris (22 April 1955).

Graduate School of Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. Calder. Exhibition catalogue. 1955.

“Mobiles at The Lefevre Gallery.” Studio (May 1955).

Vernis. “L’arte é mobile.” Connoisseur, vol. 135 (May 1955).

Duveen-Graham, New York. Attilio Salemme, 1911–1955. Exhibition catalogue. 1955.

Adlow, Dorothy. “Mobiles and Stabiles on Display at Harvard.” Christian Science Monitor, 2 May 1955.

Handy, Mary. “Mobiles Inspire Harvard Students of Design.” Christian Science Monitor, 10 May 1955.

Curt Valentin Gallery, New York. Alexander Calder. Exhibition catalogue. 1955.

Genauer, Emily. “Mobiles, Michelangelo May Express Same Ideas.” New York Herald Tribune, 22 May 1955.

“Calder.” Art Digest, vol. 29 (June 1955).

“Mobiles.” Marie-France (4 July 1955).

Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany. Documenta: Kunst des XX. jahrhunderts: Internationale Ausstellung. Exhibition catalogue. 1955.

Pineda, Rafael. “El Hombre y su Huella.” El Nacional, 25 August 1955.

Posani, Juan Pedro. “Resenas.” A. Hombre y Expresión (September 1955).

“Colección de Móviles de Alexander Calder en Museo de Bellas Artes.” El Universal, 8 September 1955.

Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela. Exposiciòn Calder. Exhibition catalogue. 1955. Foreword by Alejo Carpentier; reprinted texts by Jean-Paul Sartre and Fernand Léger; handwritten statement by Calder.

Jack and Jill (October 1955).

“The Latin American Look.” Time (Latin American, 12 December 1955).

De Grassi, Leonard R. “A Calder Trigraph: A Study of American Criticism as Applied to Three Generations of Calder Style (to 1948).” Master’s thesis, University of Southern California, 1956.

Rogers, William G. “Man and Mobile.” Manuscript, 1956. Calder Foundation, New York.

Mumford, Lewis. New Yorker (4 February 1956).

Genauer, Emily. New York Herald Tribune, 12 February 1956.

C., L. “Alexander Calder.” Art News, vol. 55 (March 1956).

“Portrait.” Art in America, vol. 44 (Spring 1956).

“Lyre Bird.” Poetry London-New York, no. 1 (March–April 1956).

Breuning, Margaret. “Margaret Breuning Writes:” Arts (March 1956).

Actualite Litteraire (March 1956).

“Un grande artista: Alexander Calder.” Gazzetta Ticinese, no. 55, 6 March 1956.

Allemande, Maurice. “A Saint-Etienne.” Prisme des Arts (15 March 1956).

Galleria d’Arte del Naviglio, Milan. Alexander Calder. Exhibition catalogue. 1956. Essay by Giulio Carlo Argan.

Schmidt, Georg. “Die Sammlung Marguerite Hagenbach. Basel.” Quadrum, no. 1 (May 1956).

Hagen, Y. “Art and Artists.” New York Herald Tribune, 9 May 1956.

Calas, André. “Calder: mes mobiles m’empêchent de rester immobile.” Demain (10–16 May 1956).

“En Touraine Calder a délaissé les mobiles pour les gouaches.” Paris Match, no. 372 (26 May 1956).

Kunstmuseum, Basel. Sammlung Richard Doetsch-Benziger. Exhibition catalogue. 1956.

“Dans le nouveau palais de l’U.N.E.S.C.O. 90 m2 de ceramique seront signees Picasso.” Combat (16 June 1956).

Foucaud, A.-Jehan. “Calder, le créateur des ‘Mobiles’ expose actuallement au Musée d’Antibes.” L’Espoir, 14 August 1956.

“A Caracas. una Casa Piena di Quadri.” Domus (October 1956).

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. Jewelry and Drawings by Alexander Calder. Exhibition catalogue. 1956.

Eudes, Georges. “Le fief Calder en Touraine.” Art and Décoration, no. 55 (November 1956).

Sweeney, James Johnson. “Alexander Calder: Work and Play.” Art in America, vol. 44, no. 4 (Winter 1956–57).

Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels. L’art dans les collections Universitaires Americaines. Exhibition catalogue. 1956.

“L’Américain Calder taille, à la cisaille, son univers à quatre dimensions.” La Nouvelle Republique, 14 December 1956.

Sweeney, James Johnson. “Alexander Calder: Work and Play.” Art in America, vol. 51, no. 4 (August 1963).

Schlösser, Manfred. “Fernand Léger und Alexander Calder Ausstellung in der Basler Kunsthalle.” Baukunst und Werkform (Nürnberg), vol. 10, no. 9 (1957).

Rodman, Selden, ed. “Alexander Calder.” In Conversations with Artists. New York: Devin-Adair, 1957.

8×8: A Chess Sonata in 8 Movements (1957). 16 mm, color, sound; 81 min. Directed by Hans Richter; cinematography by Arnold Eagle; narrated by Edgar Lang; music by John Gruen, Robert Abramson, Hans Richter, Douglas Townsend; lyrics by John Latouche; sound direction by H. Richter with technicians Bebe and Louis Barron.

Evans, Virginia. “Calder.” Ameryka America Illustrated, no. 1 (c. 1957).

Diehl, Gaston. “Les Collectionneurs Venezueliens sont Epris d’Art Moderne.” (Publication unknown), c. 1957.

Gómez Sicre, José. 4 Artists of the Americas: Roberto Burle-Marx, Alexander Calder, Amelia Palaez, Rufino Tamayo. Washington D.C: Pan American Union, 1957.

Brena, Tomas G. “Una visita a Alejandro Calder el provocador de movimiento.” El Bien Público, February 1957.

“En Pleine Anarchie.” Journal de l’Amateur d’Art (10 February 1957).

Braive, Michel-Francois. “Photos d’Artistes en Cimaise.” Combat (19 February 1957).

Genauer, Emily. “Is Rodin’s ‘Thinker’ Like Calder Mobile?” New York Herald Tribune, c. March 1957.

World House Galleries, New York. 4 Masters Exhibition: Rodin, Brancusi, Gauguin, Calder. Exhibition catalogue. 1957.

Alexander Calder, Statement

Kunsthalle Basel. Alexander Calder. Exhibition catalogue. 1957. Foreword by Arnold Rüdlinger.

Villanueva, Carlos Raul. “La Integración de las Artes.” Collection Espacio y Forma (June 1957).

“Mobiles und stabiles.” Werk, vol. 44 (July 1957).

Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt. Alexander Calder. Exhibition catalogue. 1957. Preface by Ernst Holzinger.

Holz-Scheben, Brigitte. “Mobiles: Spielerei, Raumschmuck oder mehr?” Deutsche Woche, 31 July 1957.

Kulturrman, Udo. “Der Ingenieurbau im 20. Jahrhundert.” Das Kunstwerk (September 1957).

“Siege Permanent de L’UNESCO a Paris.” Habitat et Habitation Documents d’Architecture et d’Urbanisme (October 1957).

Posani, Juan Pedro. “Aula Magna, Ciudad Universitaria.” Integral, no. 9 (November 1957).

“Gateway for Overseas Travelers.” Progressive Architecture (December 1957).

“La maison de deux artistes.” La Maison Francaise, vol. 12, no. 113 (December 1957–January 1958).

“Washington: France-Allemagne.” Paris Match (4 January 1958).

Casey, Phil. “His Art Stumps Man of Motion.” Washington Post, 25 January 1958.

“Creator of Mobile Wants No Part of Pale Copies.” The Evening Star, 25 January 1958.

Galerie Artek, Helsinki. Alexander Calder: Exposition. Exhibition catalogue. 1958. Reprinted text by Calder.

Portner, Leslie Judd. “Art Reflects Humor and Religion.” Washington Post and Times Herald, 2 February 1958.

Genauer, Emily. “Sculpture Shows All Over Town.” New York Herald Tribune, 16 February 1958.