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Title: Abstraction
Review: As a whole, Adam Schaefer's "The Life and Work Of..." series of books on artists, aimed at young readers, is excellent; this particular selection, however, lacked the enthusiasm of most other titles. The best part of the book discusses Calder's work creating circus animal sculptures, and this topic will surely appeal to students. The latter portion of the book, however, is devoted to the artist's abstract sculptures, and considering the audience level for which this book was written, the author does not quite bring the genre to life for a young mind unfamiliar with such terms and concepts. More attention, perhaps, should have been paid to Calder's mobile sculptures and the effect his popularization of this invention had on the world in general.
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