10 August 2006

Some Art I Have Seen and Liked: Part 4: Aztec Josephine Baker by Alexander Calder (ca. 1929)



This wire mobile is maybe the best way for a modern artist to try to capture the ethos of La Baker, she who is so visible, but so little understood. At the heart of Baker's elusiveness was movement--the uncopyable dance step; or the savvy use of her much-photographed body in an ongoing subversive commentary on the nonsense of modernity--and this work captures that.

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