*Calder mobiles seem like simplicity itself when you look at one, but it's agonizing to see all these historic byways and false starts and near misses. You can see that Calder himself is just sorta hacking, tinkering and messing around with wire for years on end; and even when he's got it, he doesn't yet know that he's got it.
History of kinetic mobile sculptures
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