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The festival was renamed in 2016 to the North Carolina Whirligig Festival, [16] and is usually held the first full weekend of November. [17] The Vollis Simpson Whirligig Park was created in Wilson to document, conserve, and display the large sculptures from Simpson's land in Lucama. [18] The park had its grand opening on November 2, 2017. [19]
He felt that his moving sculpture Kinetic Construction (also dubbed Standing Wave, 1919–20) [6] was the first of its kind in the 20th century. From the 1920s until the 1960s, the style of kinetic art was reshaped by a number of other artists who experimented with mobiles and new forms of sculpture.
New Jersey State Museum, Sculptures by George Rickey and James Seawright, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, 1970. Popper, Frank, Origins and Development of Kinetic Art, Studio Vista and New York Graphic Society, 1968. Thalacker, Donald, The Place of Art In the World of Architecture, Chelsea House Publishers, New York, 1980, pp. 61–63.
The meaning of the term "mobile" as applied to sculpture has evolved since it was first suggested by Marcel Duchamp in 1931 to describe the early, mechanized creations of Alexander Calder. [5] At this point, "mobile" was synonymous with the term "kinetic art", describing sculptural works in which motion is a defining property.
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Strandbeest.com – web site with video and photographs of the sculptures; Strandbeestmovie.com – documentary film about Theo Jansen by Alexander Schlichter – the web site is a workbook with videos and pictures; Theo Jansen at TED "My creations, a new form of life" (TED2007) Jansen, Theo. "Man creates kinetic sculpture that moves and lives ...
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