Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Bücher

Calder’s sculptural works can fit in the palm of a hand, or tower over a city square. This fascinating exhibition catalog examines how the artist’s sensitivity to matters of size, scale and shape engaged audiences in a variety of ways. Few artists are able to work successfully on both large and small scales, but throughout his career Calder brilliantly moved from the miniature to the monumental and back again. This publication focuses on the enormous stabiles he created mostly for public places, as well as his elegant hanging mobiles in sheet metal, miniature standing mobiles, and chess sets, shedding light on the social and performative aspects of his work. Essays explore how Calder approached the effects of kinetics and space, solidity and transparency, stasis and activity, volume and void. The book also looks at how Calder’s small-scale sculptures echoed the public spectacle of his larger pieces, creating a “private drama” that encouraged direct participation. Whatever the size, Calder’s works employed movement and interaction in unpredictable ways, and this enlightening book helps readers appreciate the important continuity of his oeuvre.

Um 1800 wird das Wandern zum Ausdruck eines modernen Lebensgefühls. Rousseaus Parole "Zurück zur Natur!" und Goethes Sturm und Drang-Dichtung begleiten die rasanten gesellschaftlichen Umbrüche seit der Französischen Revolution. Künstler entdecken seit der Romantik die Natur zu Fuß, verlegen ihre Arbeit ins Freie und verstehen die Wanderung als Gleichnis der Lebensreise und der Selbsterkenntnis. Literatur und Philosophie definieren das Wandern und beeinflussen somit die Sicht der Künstler auf diese Aktivität. Ihrer Naturbegegnung, die sich in hochkarätigen internationalen Leihgaben spiegelt, wird in fundierten Texten nachgespürt.--éditeur.

Upon learning of Henri Matisse’s death in 1954, a 73-year-old Pablo Picasso produced a series of fifteen oil paintings and one hundred drawings inspired by Eugène Delacroix’s “The Women of Algiers in their Apartment.” The first of many tributes to the masters, Picasso’s “Les Femmes d’Alger” was widely exhibited and remains one of his last works to achieve widespread critical acclaim. Today, this late masterpiece lies scattered across several continents. Collecting the entire series of paintings, drawings, and lithographs for the first time, Picasso & "Les Femmes D’Alger" offers an accessible guide to the cycle’s origin and reception alongside the Delacroix and Matisse works which inspired it.