Alexander Calder's wire puppet circus Archives
Alexander Calder's wire puppet circus
boingboing has links to "Carlos Vilardebo's 1961 documentary of mobile-maker Alexander Calder's intricate, ingenious wire puppet circus. The flying trapeezes actually fly, the lion poops, and the belly dancer gyrates lasciviously in the mind-blowing film that shows that, had Calder not become famous as an artist, he might have been equally famous as a puppeteer. In four parts."
On YouTube: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
More
- Alexander Calder's work
- Alexander Calder - wikipedia
- "The Engineer Behind Calder's Art," by Joan M. Marter, Mechanical Engineering Magazine, December 1998
- Alexander Calder at the Guggenheim
- Alexander Calder at MoMA
- Alexander Calder at the National Gallery of Art
- "Vertical Constellation with Bomb" - from the National Gallery of Art
August 13, 2006 01:17 PM Caught Our Eye ~ Living in DC