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    Alexander Calder and Kinetic Sculpture, and Sacco and Vanzetti  - August 23

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      Meredith Malone
      Associate Curator, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum

      Standing ten feet six inches high, Alexander Calder’s Five Rudders is composed of a large tripod base painted bright red, which balances a sequence of black sheet-metal elements at its apex using a series of steel rods.1 Incorporating both a stabile, an abstract construction that is completely stationary, and a mobile, a sculptural work in which motion is a defining property, Five Rudders is a hybrid form known as a standing mobile, or a stabile-mobile.2 The bolted sheets of steel making up the base foreshadow the monumentality of some of the artist’s large-scale stabiles produced later in the decade, while the steel rods function as lever arms that support the kinetic element above. Both the name of the sculpture and the industrial materials employed in its fabrication suggest a direct link to the devices used to steer ships and aircrafts, yet the sculpture also evokes biomorphic imager

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      Alexander Calder

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      Alexander Calder. New York: Museum of Modern Art, Revised and enlarged edition of MoMA

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      Calder in his New York City storefront studio,

      Photograph by Herbert Matter

      Calder in his New York City storefront studio, Photograph bygd Herbert Matter © Calder Foundation, New York

      Roxbury studio,

      Photograph bygd Herbert Matter

      Roxbury studio, Photograph by Herbert Matter © Calder Foundation, New York

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