Alexander Calder and Erskine Caldwell

ALEXANDER CALDER (United States, 1898 - 1976) and ERSKINE CALDWELL (Georgia, 1903- Arizona, 1987).
"The sacrilege of Alan Kent", 1976.
Etchings (x20).
Printing: Girard (for letterpress).
Slight wear to the slipcase.
Copy in the name of Brigitte Videcoq.
Signed on the justification sheet by Calder and Caldwell.
Measurements: 40 x 90 cm (4 double-page etchings) and 40.5 x 46 cm (book): 43.5 x 48 x 5.5 cm (slipcase).
Book The Sacrilege of Alan Kent, illustrated with 20 etchings by the artist Alexander Calder. It is a limited edition collector's item with copies signed and numbered by the artist and the author in pencil and black ink in the justification. The work was published in 1976 in Paris.
Alexander Calder was an American sculptor known for being the inventor of the mobile (so named by Marcel Duchamp), the germ of kinetic sculpture. He also created paintings, engravings, miniatures (such as his famous Calder's Circus), scenography, jewelry, tapestries, carpets and posters. In 1925 he contributed illustrations to the "National Police Gazette". In 1926 he moved to Paris and began to create wooden and wire figurines, the germ of the later development of his famous circus miniatures. In the 1930s, he became famous in Paris and the United States for his wire sculptures, as well as for his portraits, continuous line sketches and abstract motorized constructions. In 1967 he created a mobile at the Biémont factory in Tours (France), including the 24-meter tall all stainless steel "MAN" commissioned by the International Nickel of Canada (Inco) for the Montreal World's Fair. Calder was honored by the U.S. Postal Service with a set of five 32-cent stamps in 1998. He also received the Presidential Medal of Freedom after refusing to receive it from Gerald Ford in protest of the Vietnam War; he received this medal in 1977, a year after his death. His most important work is the monumental "Floating Clouds" (1952-1953) of the Aula Magna of the Universidad Central de Venezuela in Caracas. This work is part of the Unesco World Heritage Site. Calder's clouds were specially designed to combine art and technology, making the auditorium one of the five halls with the best acoustics in the world. An interesting and novel factor was sound, and he had it present in his works, as his structures collided with each other.