Bronze Sculpture No. 714 embodies what James Gleeson noted as one of the basic drives in Klippel’s art: ‘to achieve an aesthetically fruitful union of mechanical and organic forms’.
Uploaded 27 November 2018.
Cite this
Catherine Barron, History Trust of South Australia, ‘Bronze Sculpture No. 714’, SA History Hub, History Trust of South Australia, https://sahistoryhub.history.sa.gov.au/things/bronze-sculpture-no-714/
Sources
City of Adelaide Public Art Guide, ‘Bronze Sculpture No. 714‘, accessed 15 October 2018.
Featherstone, Don, ‘Make it new: a profile of the sculptor Robert Klippel’, Special Broadcasting Service, accessed 21 October 2018.
Hughes, Robert, ‘Robert Klippel’, Art and Australia (May 1964), pp 18-29.
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The Canberra Times, ‘Posterity will see Klippel as a major sculptor’, 3 July 1993.