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Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years 1898-1940 (Book); Perl, Jed; Biography (Literary form); Calder, Alexander, 1898-1976; Toymakers; Artists

A literary criticism of the book “Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940" by Jed Perl is presented. The book is the first part of a multi-volume biography of Alexander Calder, a toymaker to the modernist muses. According to the author, the main objective of the book is to establish the fact that Calder is seen as a minor artist only because he did not fit into a fixed story of modernism.