Only few know about the long relationship between Alexander Calder - the greatest modern American sculptor - and Brazil. Now Calder's Brazilian adventures are finally available in all it's details in this book.
The texts in Calder in Brazil show how wide was the roll of people touched by his art work in the country: from the poet Carlos Drummond de Andrade to professor Pietro Maria Bardi, among other great authors.
The book is a one of a kind document, carefully organized by Roberta Saraiva, that brings texts written by the artist's various Brazilian friends and admirers, fully illustrated with pictures from his time and including parts of Calder's autobiography about Brazil. The present work will surprise those who were not familiar with this chapter of the great modern artist's life and work and the decisive moment of Brazilian modernity.