Word: calders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Calder began rebuilding toys for himself when he was eight. He would embellish them with a snippet of wire here and there, sometimes to give them more motion. From then on, a pair of pliers became his tool to remake the world...
...sculpture seems like the pastime of a thousand elves. Perhaps the tiny fellows actually exist in the mischievous mind of Alexander Calder, who, at 66, has all the mien of a beardless Santa Claus, right down to his habitual red flannel shirt. He has given so much to the world for so long that he is the U.S.'s best-known artist abroad. His fancies in metal strike many people as toys, but also remind them that toys are made to stimulate the imagination...
...Alexander Calder will forever be remembered as the man who made sculpture move," says Guggenheim Director Thomas Messer. In cognizance of that, the museum has collected Calder's wire sculpture, jewelry, toys, paintings, mobiles, stabiles and stabile-mobiles to make the largest showing of Calder's work ever assembled. Calder, in turn, has created an enormous mobile to hang in the middle of it all. Through...
...18th century, the Town and Country Mice feast at a rococo table and wet their whiskers in champagne. Calder and Frasconi, with a narrative assist from Marianne Moore, have put the fables in soberer dress for today...
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART-11 West 53rd. The sculpture garden sports new acquisitions by Ferber, Calder and Ipousteguy. The lures inside are Pierre Bonnard's luminescent paintings (through Nov. 29), prints made by painters and sculptors (through Oct. 25), collages, silk-screen prints and sculptures by Britain's Eduardo Paolozzi (through Nov. 10), and 15 works by German Sculptor Günter Haese (through...