TRANSPARENCE CALDER / PICABIA

The first publication to explore the important aspect of transparency in the oeuvres of the two artists. Calder and Picabia are bot h regarded as great innovators of twentieth-century modernism. The volume creates an interface between selected works from the late twenties to the post-World War II period. It casts light on the ensuing dialogue between Calders radically new creationsfor instan ce his works made of wirethe first to use transparency as a means of expression in sculpture, and Picabias abstracting contour pic tures, his tr...[Read more]