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The title doesn't have much to do with the article. Calder's popularity is, in my opinion, largely due to the non-political, inoffensive nature. It is in a conv
by dsr_ 9y ago
The title doesn't have much to do with the article. Calder's popularity is, in my opinion, largely due to the non-political, inoffensive nature. It is in a conversation with other artists, but doesn't say anything about war, death, love, governance; it does not stimulate strong emotion, but an abstracted air of interesting-ness.
- dredmorbius 9y agoI'll give as a direct counterpoint Jo Davidson. I'd not heard of him, but friends mentioned encountering him (or someone who'd had a bust made by him) in Big Sur. I started reading the commissions list, and the just burst out laughing. Davidson simply did an increadible number of works on some of the most notable names of the 20th century. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Davidson#Commissions https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jo_Davidson#Commissions