Alexander Calder and His Magical Mobiles

Vintage paperback coffee table book featuring the mobile work of artist, Alexander Calder. By Jean Lipman and Margaret Aspinwall, published in 1981. 1st edition, 96 pages.

"One cant compress Sandy (Alexander Calder) into a few words. Too much of him...too large...and his qualities are too varied and contradictory. Engineer-artist. Capricious yet totally logical. A serious Santa Claus. Mobile as a dream, stable as the very earth and sometimes both. A lover of fun, full of wit and play, but confronted by things evil he is as grim as one could ask for. He is that rare combination of delight and powers with which he has blessed us all"