"Published in conjunction with the exhibition Calder and Abstraction: From Avant-Garde to Iconic at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, Californi

The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder: an authoritative and revelatory achievement, based on a wealth of letter

This monograph brings together works by the two artists, not only shedding light on the richness of their individual practices, but also offering an opportunity

The first publication to explore Calder's significance for artists who emerged in the mid-1990s and the early twenty-first century.

"Hans Richter was a central figure in the avant-garde for more than 50 years. This book examines the ways in which these "encounters"--to use Richter's own term