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...that insisted upon sculpture as a form-in-the-round whose contours were its boundaries. He embraced space with his mobiles, sometimes in a bear hug, sometimes in a fencer's riposte. He became known as the man who made sculpture move. Actually, the Russian constructivists and Dadaist Marcel Duchamp did it years before him, but no one has ever made cubic feet dance and gambol as has Calder. His work is the apotheosis of open form: space is his circus, all three rings, all three dimensions...
...bachelor, Brassens lives on a deadend alley in Montparnasse with an aged couple, who befriended him in his lean years, and a menagerie of pets. Two members of the French Academy, Novelist Joseph Kessel and Film Maker Marcel Pagnol, have been promoting the initiation of Brassens into the august Academy as "one of the greatest contemporary poets, a modern troubadour who represents a new literary form...
Many recent sculptors-Chamberlain, Stankiewicz, César, for example-have plundered the scrap heap for its rusty riches. Their assemblages look back on Marcel Duchamps' "ready-mades," or store-bought hardware, and Picasso's "found objects." Paolozzi also once combined bits of cameras, clocks, toys and bombsights into figures that looked like archaic idols or, as he said, "the fetishes of a Congo witch doctor." Now his work sets up a more modern paradox between engineering and art, and his breakaway from traditional values has made him spiritual uncle (where Henry Moore is spiritual father) to younger...
Dragon Sky. Lady Luck, like most females, needs to feel needed. When Marcel Camus, a middle-aged Frenchman whose first movie had flopped, laid his last sou and two years of his life on the line for a far-out film about the slums of Rio de Janeiro, the lady smiled on every scene he shot-Black Orpheus is a cinemusical masterpiece. But when he lazily decided to remake the same movie in the slums and ruins of Cambodia, the lady gave him a sharp slap in the face-Dragon Sky is just an interesting failure...
...arts and crafts movement in England, and the art nouveauists, who all felt a messianic urge to put art into everyday items. Dada and surrealism came along to mock them-but then the International Style, the architectural rubric of glass-and-steel boxes, came along to mock the mockers. Marcel Breuer, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames, for example, all set about to design better chairs for man to plop in, and, save a sore sacroiliac or so, they succeeded...