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1957 J. Lynch Metal Sculpture v. 105 It might be easier to define constructions, stabiles, mobiles and kinetic sculpture by what they are not.

1964 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Sept. 775/3 The ‘kinetic art’ which is occupying so many of the younger artists today..is largely based on a quasi-mathematical analysis of variation and motion.

1966 Cambr. Rev. 28 May 449/1 Schöffer..claims that kinetic works of art are ‘man's biological and psychological extension’.

1967 Listener 30 Mar. 434/1 At the Indica Gallery there is a kinetic exhibition.

1968 S. Bann tr. F. Popper Origins & Devel. Kinetic Art vii. 156 The majority of kinetic works composed on plane surfaces bring white or coloured light into play.

1969 Listener 16 Jan. 93/1 Modern developments fall more or less exactly into two groups which might roughly be called kinetic and psychedelic.

1971 J. Willett in A. Bullock 20th Cent. x. 244/2 Serialism in every art owed an obvious debt to Schönberg and Webern; the kinetic artists to Calder and Moholy-Nagy.

1973 Times 27 Nov. 12/6 A good deal of European kinetic art was mere flashy mechanics (the light machines of Nicolas Schöffer, for example) but one of the best kinetic artists has been the German, Gerhard von Graevenitz, who now works in Amsterdam.

1974 Evening News (Edinb.) 10 Apr. 1/8 The kinetic sculpture—the first of its kind in Scotland—was erected by Edinburgh Corporation and the Scottish Arts Council at a cost of £11,000. The structure blends perfectly with the rows of scaffolding masking the north side of Picardy Place.