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Hilary Spurling

Hilary Spurling’s books include Pearl Buck in China: Journey to the Good Earth and a biography of Henri Matisse. Her biography of Anthony Powell, Dancing to the Music of Time, will be published in the US next year. (November 2017)

Alexander Calder and Margaret French dancing while Louisa Calder plays the accordion, Farmington, Connecticut, 1936

High-Wire Act

Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898–1940

by Jed Perl

November 9, 2017 issue

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