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George Rickey : a life in balance
- Title
- George Rickey : a life in balance / Belinda Rathbone.
- Author
- Rathbone, Belinda
- Publication
- Boston : Godine, 2021.
- ©2021
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Details
- Description
- x, 451 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color); 24 cm
- Summary
- "The first biography of George Rickey, one of the greatest kinetic sculptors of the 20th century. His moving blades, squares, triangles, and circles can be found in museums and public spaces around the world, from bucolic landscapes to the bustling streets of New York City. Now, here is the story of his life, his times, and his vision of balance that created something new--sculpture that is defined by movement. Before his death in 2002, George Rickey created more than 3,000 works of art that move, including hundreds of major outdoor installations. His "useless machines," as he called them, achieved complete rotation, used multiple variations of the pendulum, and delighted viewers with the joyride effects of conical movement. George Rickey follows the life of a renowned artist--first a painter, then a sculptor--who found inspiration all around him--as a child visiting the Singer Sewing Machine factory managed by his father, in his adventurous youth in English and Parisian art studios of the 1920s, during his service as an engineer in the Army Air Corps during World War II, and later as a pioneer in academic art programs around the United States. But this is not only the story of a single artist's creativity and achievement but of Rickey's life in the larger context of the twentieth century: from Depression-era America to the upheaval of World War II, from the rise of New York as the world's art capital at mid-century to the tumultuous 1960s, when Rickey emerged as an international figure rubbing elbows with Alexander Calder, David Smith, Christo, and many others along the way. It is also the story of an exceptional marriage and of Rickey's charismatic, devoted wife, Edith Leighton, who managed her husband's career and reputation in the high-powered art circles of New York, Berlin, and California. Belinda Rathbone (author of The Boston Raphael and Walker Evans) has captured the spirit of an artist and his world as few have before. George Rickey: A Life in Balance is for any reader fascinated by the lives of artists, the creation of enduring art, or twentieth century modernism"--
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- JQE 21-915
- ISBN
- 9781567927078
- 1567927076
- LCCN
- 2021011696
- OCLC
- 1233164124
- Author
- Rathbone, Belinda, author.
- Title
- George Rickey : a life in balance / Belinda Rathbone.
- Publisher
- Boston : Godine, 2021.
- Copyright Date
- ©2021
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Form:
- Online version: Rathbone, Belinda. George Rickey Boston : Godine, 2021 9781567927085 (DLC) 2021011697
- Research Call Number
- JQE 21-915