GEORGE RICKEY Kinetic Sculpture ART 1971 SIGNED by Him

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Description: This is a hard cover book titled GEORGE RICKEY -- Retrospective Exhibition 1971-72. Organized by the UCLA Art Council, Los Angeles, California, no copyright date, but attributed to 1971, presumed first edition, 96 pages.

This book has been signed and inscribed by George Rickey on the title page. It reads: "For Mr. and Mrs. Berman -- George Rickey."

This book was published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the University of California at Los Angeles in 1971.

Contents include: Sculptures; Interview with Frederick S. Wight; Drawings; Chronology; One-Man Sculpture Exhibitions; Group Exhibitions; Writings by the Artist; Writings About the Artist; Public Collections; Catalogue.

The book is filled with excellent black-and-white photographs throughout -- Rickey's kinetic sculptures and drawings, plus several photos of the artist at work. Separate revised catalogue list and errata slip are included.

Book measures 7" by 11 1/4".

Excerpt from his obituary: George Rickey (June 6, 1907–July 17, 2002) was an American kinetic sculptor. "Rickey was one of two major 20th-century artists to make movement a central interest in sculpture. Alexander Calder, whose mobiles Mr. Rickey encountered in the 1930's, was the other. After starting out as a painter, Rickey began to produce sculptures with moving parts in the early 1950's, but it was not until a decade later that he achieved the kind of simplicity and scale that would make him an important figure in contemporary art. At that point, he began to produce tall stainless-steel sculptures with long, spear-like arms attached to central posts. Rotating on precision bearings devised by the artist, the arms were balanced so that slight breezes would cause them to sweep like giant scissor blades, tracing graceful arcs or circles against the sky."

"In the ensuing years, Rickey set in motion all kinds of geometric configurations -- wavering stacks or grids of flat squares, shifting open rectangles, zigzagging beams, spinning shell-like forms. His work was often compared with Calder's, but while Calder's abstract mobiles had playful, organic qualities related to Surrealism, Rickey's geometric forms and machine-like engineering harked back to Constructivism. That was the early-20th-century Russian movement about which Rickey wrote a scholarly book (''Constructivism: Origins and Evolution,'' George Braziller, 1967). The fascinating movements of Rickey's sculptures appealed to a wide audience, and he received commissions from all over the world to create public works."

Condition: Good plus condition, coming from a smoke-free, pet-free environment. Binding tight, pages clean and unmarked (except for the artist's inscription and signature, end pages and inside covers have faded along edges), covers have general wear (corner, spine and edge wear, surface wear).

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