Calder and Mobiles

airbolt | 23:31 Mon 24th Jul 2006 | Arts & Literature

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Is it true that Alexander Calder invented the Mobile? Or was he the first to use it in art?

What happened to the huge mobile that used to the hang in the Pompidou in Paris?

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heathfield

Read about Calder's 'mobiles' here Note the comment on 'Kinetic Art', around before Calder. (I also suspect that the Japanese used hanging origami ornaments, i.e. 'mobiles' , long before anything like that appeared in Western culture).

spk

Whoever invented it has alot to answer for

pandabear

well this is a strange one .....

The 'Current Questions' section on the Home Page of this site ..... entitles this as ... Wo invented the Mobile PHONE?

This Link takes ABers to the Question above ..... I think the Editor or another is asleep on the job at the moment !!!

Anfd there is no means to Report this Blah ......

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