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Word: mobilist (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: New Magazine in Manhattan | 5/14/1956 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Abstractions, Limited | 2/9/1953 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Track Through the Jungle? | 10/27/1952 | See Source »

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