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Mobilist Alexander Calder saw his "prisoner" as two black triangles pierced with a spear. Philadelphia's Wharton Esherick used a pair of leaning monoliths to convey his idea. Others showed a tiny figure trapped, fly-like, in a conical web of wires; shapeless wooden chunks joined by metal bars; a writhing metal mass with sharp edges and a pair of protruding wings. Only one winner gave his prisoner a human form...
Shortly after Vellucci's pamphlet appeared, several paper-back editions disappeared from Cambridge newstands. Among them were John O'Hara's A Rage to Live, and Torres' Women's Barracks, and Calder Willingham's Geraldine Bradshaw. In addition, a magazine called Art Photography was lifted, under the watchful eye of Cambridge police...
...breasts and huge, finlike legs. There were slim bronze stringbeans for human figures in City Square by Switzerland's Alberto Giacometti, wrought iron spikes and loops for a Woman Combing Her Hair by Spain's Julio Gonzalez, tinkling wire tendrils for a Streetcar by U.S. Mobilist Alexander Calder...
FOREIGN SCULPTURE: U.S. Abstractionist Alexander Calder (TIME, Jan. 8, 1951), whose whirligig mobiles fascinated both judges and visitors...
...apiece. But, more important, his teacher liked them too ("nice design . . . balanced lines . . ."), and decided to take some of them to Boston. There Gallery-Owner Margaret Brown saw them and was enthralled-"terrific spatial feeling . . . great sensitivity . . ." She put them on display along with her exhibit of Calder mobiles. "It takes an artist with some feeling," said she, "to do 20 of these and sustain his values." Some of her advance-guard customers agreed. By last week, she had sold six original Drews for $2 to $4 each, and customers were clamoring for more...