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kinetic art, term referring to sculptured works that include motion as a significant dimension. The form was pioneered by Marcel Duchamp Duchamp, Marcel (märsĕl` düshäN`) ..... Click the link for more information. , Naum Gabo Gabo, Naum (noum gä`bō), 1890–1977, Russian sculptor, architect, theorist, and teacher, brother of Antoine Pevsner . ..... Click the link for more information. , and Alexander Calder Calder, Alexander (kôl`dər), 1898–1976, American sculptor, b. ..... Click the link for more information. . Kinetic art is either nonmechanical, e.g., Calder's mobiles mobile (mō`bēl), a type of moving sculptural artwork developed by Alexander Calder in 1932 and named by Marcel Duchamp . ..... Click the link for more information. , or mechanical, e.g., works by Gabo, László Moholy-Nagy Moholy-Nagy, László (lä`slō mô`hôlē-nŏ`dyə) ..... Click the link for more information. , and Jean Tinguely Tinguely, Jean (zhäN tăNglē`), 1925–91, Swiss artist. ..... Click the link for more information. . The latter sort of kineticism developed in response to an increasingly technological culture. |
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The editors of Avalanche were in fact instrumental in the formation of the AWC, and they even took part in occasional protests (as in January 1969, when they helped to stage a demonstration at the Museum of Modern Art for their friend Vassilakis Takis, a Greek kinetic artist, who removed his work from the museum in a calculated act of institutional defiance). The facility's botanical director, Jim Folsom, pursued his idea for creating the garden and worked with kinetic artist Ned Kahn to provide an area just right for children ages 2 to 7. |
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