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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

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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

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Posted August 13, 2006 01:17 PM · Permalink · Humor , Museums and Art

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