Word: calders
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are some delightful "pure" works of art in this show, like Alexander Calder's little maquette for a huge motorized sculpture at the New York World's Fair -- a small, sharp orrery with strong cosmological overtones. There are also some rarities by lesser-known artists, notably the huge cubist- derived portrait of the workings of a watch by Gerald Murphy, the American expatriate on whom Scott Fitzgerald was to base his character of Dick Diver. . But compared with the knockout confidence of the work of engineers and designers represented in this show, the machine-esthetic painting...
Time and its offspring, movement, have fascinated some modern artists. Sculptors can build it straight into their work -- the last half of the 20th century is full of wind-, gravity- or motor-powered contraptions that range from the balletic (Alexander Calder) to the Rube Goldbergian (Jean Tinguely) -- but a painter has to deal with a still, flat surface. On it, there are two possibilities. The first is to try to render the movement of the object itself, as the futurists did with their racing cars, or the cartoonist does with his speed lines. Mostly this results in illustrations, straightforward...
...degree to which sculptors angled their work away from the accepted forms of social communication via the human figure. Not because they lost interest in the figure -- on the contrary, the years 1900-1950 were rich in figure sculpture and body-haunted objects by Matisse, Picasso, Archipenko, Brancusi, Miro, Calder, Giacometti and others -- but because they did not want to serve the social consensus in the way that statuary did. Consequently, few public commemorative sculptures made in the past 75 years have any real importance in the modernist canon; and conversely, modern public sculpture is mostly banal in the extreme...
Beyond the wonder of his arthro scopic knee surgery last November, the fact that Spend A Buck began his twelve-race career (eight wins) at Florida's Calder Race Course was a delight of its own. Henceforth, at least for a while, "a Calder horse" will no longer serve as racing shorthand for a second-rater. Both the owner and trainer are recent arrivals in the sport, both of Tampa, Fla. Dennis Diaz, who retired from the real estate and insurance businesses four years ago at 38, discovered "there's only so much fishing a man can do." With...
...proved a rewarding week for TIME. The magazine won the prestigious award for general excellence among publications with a circulation of more than 1 million. The prize, a stabile designed by Alexander Calder, is presented by the American Society of Magazine Editors and administered by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. The citation commended TIME for "excellence in its coverage and analysis of the week's news, in its notable design and color photography, in its intelligent criticism of the arts and in its finely chiseled essays...