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1967OP-0132Georg Braziller New York 1967. hardcover with dust jacket. fine. A pioneering critical study of the origins of modern sculptural form--the works that blink move create sound and otherwise make new demands on space. Some 134 black-and-white photographs illustrate the ample text. Burnham a sculptor with both art and engineering training is a fellow at MIT's Center for Advanced Visual Research. He sees technological innovation as the "controlling force" in contemporary sculpture. Georg Braziller, New York unknown
19441202101944. First Edition. Signed. CALDER Alexander. Three Young Rats and Other Rhymes. Drawings by Alexander Calder. Edited with Introduction by James Johnson Sweeney. New York: Curt Valentin 1944. Folio original half tan cloth and pictorial yellow boards original dust jacket. $4200.Limited first edition one of only 760 copies with a wonderful inscription with flourishes that fills almost the entire front free endpaper: ""to Edward L. Fischer Cordial Greetings from Alexander Calder Jan. 1945.""Calder's 85 illustrations are as direct delightful and disturbing as the nursery rhymes they depict. ""Until comparatively recent times little thought was given these 'trifles of the nursery' That such trifles lasted any great time is surprising. But it is difficult to exaggerate the extreme tenacity of tradition in little things. Nothing is more remarkable than the way that a phrase or a custom will survive ages after its original significance has been forgotten"" Introduction. Contemporary exhibition catalogue laid in.Occasional foxing. Sun-toning along edges and spine of fragile dust jacket. A near-fine copy most desirable inscribed. hardcover