Suspended animation: Calder’s sculptural revolution
Posted by Barbara Kiser | Categories: Arts, Engineering, Materials science
She hangs dark, immense and pocked with holes in a white room, a beast of many parts languidly revolving in the air. Part leaf, part lever, all magisterial grace, Black Widow is a quintessential Calder mobile — one of the signature inventions of the extraordinary twentieth-century artist-engineer. Read more