Word: mobilist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...York could claim a magazine devoted to first-class poetry. Now each may stake half a claim to a new bimonthly: Poetry London-New York. Price: 75? a copy. Stamped on the sedately styled cover of the first issue is a red-and-black lyrebird drawn by Mobilist Alexander Calder as a symbol of the editor's feeling that "the lyrical spirit is badly needed in poetry today." Between the covers appear works by an honor guard of Anglo-American poets, among them Robert Graves, Roy Campbell, W. H. Auden, Marianne Moore, E. E. Cummings. The spur behind...
...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...
...with tiny 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...