Little Mo reading Calder

Neighbor Virgina gave me an interesting book, Calder: An Autobiography with Pictures (1965, Pantheon Books), about the 20th century artist perhaps known best for his mobile sculptures. I like this from Robert Osborn's foreword, once you get past some surprisingly hagiographic verbiage: <br /> <br />"…what distinguishes him most of all is that a full generation before this present space-seeking age began he was intuitively perceiving--as the great artist always does--what the future was to be and he forsook the earthly SOLIDS, the laborious, heavy masses, and tackled space. He began to define and encompass SPACE by slicing it up.… Calder, a generation before out time, was in full orbit. Long before atoms were ruptured into flying particles or rockets ricocheted from planet to planet, this weighty man had blasted off. And today, even his monumental stabiles rest their enormous size and weight LIGHTLY on elegant fins and flanges and reach outward from the earth." <br /> <br />Here's a Calder 1929 wire creation, "Goldfish Bowl"

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