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Scope note

Delicately balanced constructions of movable parts made to be suspended in such a way that parts will be set in motion by the movement of air; originally used to describe the work of Alexander Calder, but now used to describe any constructions of this sort. A-Z

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

300047098

Broader Terms used

<sculpture by form>

Equivalent Terms used

mobile

Created

13yrs ago

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