Word: calders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With graceful constellations of wire and drifting metal, young Alexander Calder made sculpture airborne. Today, more than 30 years since he made the mobile a household word, "Sandy" Calder is working as hard as ever-on the ground. In France, where he has lived off and on since 1926, the Connecticut Yankee has created freestanding metal sculptures more massive than those of any other 20th century artist...
...compelled to reduce his favorite four letters to three ("fug"), or that there was ever any fuss about poor old Lady Chatterley's Lover and his worshipful deification of sexual organs. John O'Hara, whose writing until recently was criticized as "sex-obsessed," appears positively Platonic alongside Calder Willingham and John Updike, who describe lyrically and in detail matters that used to be mentioned even in scientific works only in Latin...
...76th. Synesthetic creations by 27 modern artists titillate both eye and ear with a clattering symphony including Chryssa's Boozooki, Bruce Connor's Tick Took Jelly Clock Cosmotron, Allan d'Arcangelo's Metronomes, Richard Stankiewicz' Storm Gong, George Ortman's Heartbeat, Alexander Calder's Three Gongs And Red, Man Ray's Indestructible Object, Robert Rauschenberg's Dry Cell, Jean Tinguely's Radio Drawing. Through...
...vastly enlarged the U.S. collection because U.S. art "was seriously underestimated abroad." His great exhibitions are the talk of London: the 1963 survey of Australian art from aborigines to Sidney Nolan, his 1960 Picasso retrospective (which drew half a million viewers), big surveys of Hitchens, Arp, Soutine, Modigliani, Calder, Kokoschka. Nowadays, the supreme accolade for a living British artist is not a place in the Royal Academy. It is a place in the Tate...
...other helpers: a black-coiffed, sad-eyed Marisol Doll by Marisol; a block-toy chess set by George Ortman; William King's Pop guns; Lanny Powers' alphabet blocks, in which M stands for Marilyn Monroe. Among the playful creative elves: Andy Warhol, Robert Indiana, Ellsworth Kelly, Alexander Calder, Richard Lindner, Richard Anuszkiewicz. Through...