Word: calders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Alexander Calder, 67, loves to play with space. In the 1930s he invented the mobile, that flying trapeze of multi colored disks adangle which made sculpture fly. Now he makes stabiles, which, as the name implies, build up from the ground to defy gravity. Cars can drive under his largest stabile, a 59-ft.-tall giant in the festival city of Spoleto, Italy...
...second-largest stabile found an even more appropriate site. Last week Calder's 40-ft.-high The Big Sail (see opposite page) was dedicated at Boston's Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Calder is a graduate engineer of Stevens Institute of Technology, class of 1919, and his adventures in cantilevers and tensions prove it. His new stabile has only one curved surface out of many; yet it presents a fluid silhouette of restless arabesques...
...photographic essay, on Calder, by the editor Peter Van Wyck Brooks, exemplifies this tendency. His photographs are artful and interesting but Calder's sculpture is only the unifying backdrop for Brooks' photographic compositions. The charmingly personal article on the Herbert Lee Collection also misses the boat. It will certainly interest all of Mr. Lee's friends, but because the emphasis is on the Lee rather than the paintings, the article will fail to elicit widespread interest...
...Calder seemed to be enjoying the flurry he was creating as he shook hands and consulted with the workmen. On top of his bushy white hair, he sported a Turner Construction Company hardhat. Under his overcoat was a magenia silk ascot...
...French technician who helped Calder cast the plates in France estimated the cost of the sculpture at 15 to 20 million old francs. "In dollars zat ees.." he began, and then gave up computing. Someone else said that the huge object d'art probably cost around...