{"id":151025,"date":"2025-09-12T08:30:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T08:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/151025\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T08:30:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T08:30:09","slug":"calder-isms-book-by-no-more-rulers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/151025\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Calder-isms&#8217; Book by No More Rulers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nomorerulers.com\/product\/calder-isms\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">No More Rulers<\/a> has released Calder-isms, a new book that highlights the wit and wisdom of Alexander Calder, the American sculptor best known for inventing the \u201cmobile.\u201d Named by his friend Marcel Duchamp, Calder\u2019s hanging sculptures brought movement, balance and color into modern art in unseen ways.<\/p>\n<p>Edited by Larry Warsh, the book collects Calder\u2019s words from interviews, writings and other sources, showing the same inventive and playful spirit that defined his work. \u201cWhy must art be static? The next step in sculpture is motion,\u201d he once said. On titles, he joked: \u201cA title is just like the license plate on the back of a car.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other lines reflect his humor and outlook: \u201cBad taste always boomerangs,\u201d and his belief that mobiles\u2014though without meaning or utility\u2014were \u201csimply beautiful.\u201d With \u2018Calder-isms,\u2019 No More Rulers gives readers a clear look into the sharp mind and lively character of an artist who changed the course of modern sculpture.\n<\/p>\n<p>Available to purchase now on <a href=\"https:\/\/nomorerulers.com\/product\/calder-isms\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">No More Rulers\u2019 website<\/a> and select stockists for $16.95 USD<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"No More Rulers has released Calder-isms, a new book that highlights the wit and wisdom of Alexander Calder,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151026,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[228,226,227,229,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-151025","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-arts","9":"tag-arts-and-design","10":"tag-artsanddesign","11":"tag-design","12":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}