Le Grand Cirque Calder 1927 DVD

$22.00 at Whitney Museum of American Art.

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Friends brought friends to see Calder perform his Circus. They sat on a low bed or on crates, munching peanuts while Calder, on the floor, manipulated his characters with strings and wires so that trapezist flew through the air, cowboys lassoed horses, and acrobats catapulted across space. It was through circus performances as well as in the artist studios and café life of Paris's Montparnasse quarter that Calder met colleagues who would also become icons of twentieth-century art and life-long friends: Piet…