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stabile
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stabile (stā`bēl), an abstract construction that is completely stationary. The form was pioneered by Alexander Calder Calder, Alexander , 1898–1976, American sculptor, b. Philadelphia; son of a prominent sculptor, Alexander Stirling Calder. Among the most innovative modern sculptors, Calder was trained as a mechanical engineer.
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, and examples were termed stabiles to distinguish them from mobiles mobile , a type of moving sculptural artwork developed by Alexander Calder in 1932 and named by Marcel Duchamp. Often constructed of colored metal pieces connected by wires or rods, the mobile has moving parts that are sensitive to a breeze or light touch; it can be
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, their moving counterparts, also invented by Calder.


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