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...oscillate." Then he rushed to his cluttered studio and went to work. When Painter Marcel (Nude Descending a Staircase) Duchamp saw the results -brightly colored compositions of sheet metal, wire, steel rods and wood, moving by use of motors, pulleys or wind -he dubbed them "mobiles." Sculptor Jean Arp reacted by calling the nonmoving sculptures "stabiles." Thus were created two of the best-known terms of modern sculpture...
...Martha Peter Welch, who called on him last week to get his views on the relationship of outdoor sculpture to modern architecture. From the Parthenon Breuer moved quickly on to his UNESCO building, which is being put up in Paris with sculpture and murals by Henry Moore, Alexander Calder, Arp, Miro and Picasso. As Breuer talked, he doodled his ideas on a piece of paper lying on his desk (see cut). The story and the page of color pictures that started all this are laid out in ART, Sculpture Outside...
...Volkswagen, Ford and American Motors have also been cashing in. In the first four months of this year, British Ford sales in the U.S. hit 3,201 v. 717 in the same period last year. Sales of American Motors Corp.'s Metropolitan, made by Austin of England, arp...
What made Ferren's conversion significant is that he is one of the oldest abstractionists going, with an established prewar-Paris reputation. In the '30s he rated one-man shows, shared gallery space in group shows with such now famous moderns as Alberto Giacometti, Arp, Hans Hartung and Kandinsky. Gertrude Stein, who had taken a shine to the strapping, red-haired painter from Pendleton, Ore., announced in Everybody's Autobiography: "He is the only American painter foreign painters in Paris consider as a painter and whose painting interests them. He is young yet and might only perhaps...
...novel's plot concerns Old Cock's attempts to hold on to his job and to keep Arp secure in his Nissen hut, located on the edge of the garbage dump. Among his adversaries are not only the city authorities and the garbage men (who have no respect for a well-conducted dump), but a film company run by a madly implausible American operator named Claygate Corst. Though Corst doesn't have "enough do-re-mi in his pocket to acquire a second-hand mouse-trap," he takes over the decayed movie studios next to the dump...