Four essays on kinetic art

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Includes bibliographical references and index.


Kinetic art : yesterday, today and tomorrow / Frank Popper -- Colour music / Philip Steadman -- Aspects of kinetic art and motion / Reg Gadney -- Colour plates -- Unity and diversity in kinetic art / Stephen Bann.


"In the past year important exhibitions of kinetic art have taken place in New York, Tel Aviv, Glasgow, and London. Yet despite the growing public interest there has been little published on the subject outside catalogues and ephemera. This new book presents the first comprehensive review of the field, with special emphasis on artists working in Paris, and including a historical survey of the use of movement in art. Kinetic art has been called 'the movement movement' : but unlike many artistic movements confined to small national groups or based on particular sets of theoretical tenets, kinetic art is notable for its international 'membership' and for the catholicity of styles and aims, which it embraces. The authors of these four essays would prefer to see the term as describing a 'genre', like still-lifes or landscape, in which the common factors are technical (the use of mechanical or illusory movement) rather than stylistic or of aesthetic principle.... Many historical examples are
traced, in these four essays, of mobile works of not only from the immediate past--Calder, the 'kinetic sculpture' of Moholy-Nagy and the Constructivists, Bauhaus experiments and Duchamp's optical machines--but also from earlier dates--in particular the development of 'colour organs' and 'colour music'....The achievements of numerous artists are discussed in this book: of Vardanega, Boto, Cruxent, Cruz-Diez, Soto, Takis, Tinguely, Calos, Dantu, Agam, and in particular detail Malina, Schöffer, Vasarely and the Groupe Recherche d'Art Visuel."--back cover.

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Leeds University Library copy at Maurice de Sausmarez Collection 250: From the collection of Maurice de Sausmarez, acquired for the University of Leeds in 2019. Former reference: 17C/113. MS. inscription on title page: John S. Allitt.

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