Constructing Modernity: The Art & Career of Naum Gabo

New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000. Hardcover. VG/VG. Black cloth boards with silver spine lettering, black and color illustrated dust jacket with white lettering, mylar cover, 528 pp, profusely illustrated in bw throughout with several color. "Drawing on Gabo's extensive and largely unpublished archives of letters, diaries, notebooks, models and sketchbooks, Hammer and Lodder discuss the sculptor's work in the context of his relations with other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 Constructivist movement and the wider tradition of twentieth-century art, and they examine Gabo's accomplishments in each of the diverse milieus in which he worked."--Jacket.
Contents include: 1. Early Life Russia and Munich 1890-1917 -- 2. The Formation of a Sculptor: Norway 1914-17 -- 3. Revolutionary Russia: 1917-20 -- 4. The Russian Avant-Garde: 1920-2 -- 5. International Constructivism in Berlin: 1922-4 -- 6. Sculpture for the Machine-Age: 1924-7 -- 7. Guardians of the Flame: 1928-30 -- 8. The Palace of the Soviets: 1931-2 -- 9. Hard Times: 1932-6 -- 10. London: 1936-9 -- 11. Cornwall: 1939-46 -- 12. Settling in America: 1946-54 -- 13. Public Successes: 1954-62 -- 14. Art and Science: 1930-60 -- 15. Brothers in Art -- 16. Final Years: 1963-77.