Naum Gabo (1890-1977), whose eventful life took him from his native Russia to Berlin, Paris, London, and finally the United States, achieved renown as one of the most inventive and controversial figures in twentieth-century sculpture. This book is the first comprehensive account of Gabo's life, career, and artistic theory and practice. Martin Hammer and Christina Lodder explore in detail the evolution of the artist's work and his aesthetic concerns, creative processes, assimilation of such new materials as plastic, and ...
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Naum Gabo (1890-1977), whose eventful life took him from his native Russia to Berlin, Paris, London, and finally the United States, achieved renown as one of the most inventive and controversial figures in twentieth-century sculpture. This book is the first comprehensive account of Gabo's life, career, and artistic theory and practice. Martin Hammer and Christina Lodder explore in detail the evolution of the artist's work and his aesthetic concerns, creative processes, assimilation of such new materials as plastic, and approach to public sculpture. The authors also examine his response to the scientific and political revolutions of his age and trace the origins and development of Gabo's utopian conviction that Constructivist art was profoundly in tune with modernity, social progress, and advances in science and technology. Drawing on Gabo's extensive and largely unpublished archives of letters, diaries, notebooks, models, and sketchbooks, Hammer and Lodder discuss the sculptor's work in the context of his relations with other avant-garde artists, architects, and critics, including his brother Antoine Pevsner. They also situate his aesthetic theory and practice within the Constructi
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Good in Good jacket. Size: 8x1x10; Solid hardcover copy with a moderate amount of underlined text, in pen. Jacket has mild surface and moderate edge wear. Binding is tight and square. Books, box sets, and items other than standard jewel case CDs and DVDs that sell for $9 or more ship in a box; under $9 in a bubble mailer. Expedited and international orders may ship in a flat rate envelope rather than a box due to cost constraints. All US-addressed items ship with complimentary delivery confirmation.
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Very good in Good jacket. Jacket is lightly rubbed. Both Jacket flaps are slightly yellowed around the top and bottom edge flap, but otherwise in great condition. Cover is in great condition. Spine is slightly shaken, but the binding is secure. Inside is clean and unmarked.
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Gabo, Naum. Very good(+) in very good jacket. More than 200 illustrations. 528pp., thick 4to, black cloth, d.w.; dust wrapper edgeworn, few small tears. New Haven & London: Yale University Press, (2000). A very good (+) copy in a very good dust wrapper.
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Fine in Fine jacket. Book. 4to-over 9¾"-12" tall. (2000), no publication date. Cloth binding, 528 pp. New in dustjacket, protected with a mylar cover. Naum Gabo (1890-1977), whose eventful life took him from his native Russia to Berlin, Paris, London, and finally the United States, achieved renown as an inventive and controversial sculptor. A proponent of constructed sculpture-which arose from Cubist philosophy to become one of the predominant means of sculpture in the 20th century-Gabo adopted metal, glass, plexiglass, and plastic in "stereometric" constructions, making space and light his real medium. His study of engineering, art, and art history equipped him to consider the arts and sciences together, and his constructions often resembled nothing so much as math in three dimensions. Illustrated with 300 photographs and drawings, some in color, this critical biography delves into Gabo's utopian futurism, his often overlooked impact on 20th-century art, and his relationship with his brother Antoine Pevsner, who Gabo first acclaimed as a cofounder of Constructivism but later refuted.
