Even before Mary Shelley imagined the animation of the lifeless in Frankenstein, brilliant minds across Europe – clockmakers, to be exact – were already tinkering in their workshops, breathing life ...
A catalogue of various clocks, watches, automata, and other miscellaneous objects of European workmanship dating from the XVIIIth and the early XIXth centuries, in the Palace Museum and the Wu ...
There have been times when kinetic art — think of Marcel Duchamp’s spinning bicycle wheel screwed to a stool, Alexander Calder’s abstract mobiles or the self-destructing machines of Jean Tinguely — ...
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