Alexander Calder: To do the Circus

Brooklyn Rail: Verbatim - Featured Article - February 7, 2018

Calder with Cirque Calder (1926–31), 1929. Photo Courtesy of: Calder Foundation, New York. Artist Copyright: © 2018 Calder Foundation, New York / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York. Photography Credit: André Kertész © Ministère de la Culture / Médiathèque de Patrimoine, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais / André Kertész

Always taciturn on the nature of his art, Alexander Calder once quipped, “That others grasp what I have in mind seems unessential, at least as long as they have something else in theirs.”1 He went about his work in the spirit of a dogged Yankee—practical, no-nonsense, and straightforward—and sidestepped the elegiac.

Or did he?

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