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31:. It is based on carefully structured modules which allow for intricate and in some cases infinite patterns of repetition, sometimes used to create limitless, basically planar, screen-like formations, and sometimes employed to make more multidimensional structures. Designing these structures involves intensive study of the combinatorial possibilities of sometimes quite curvilinear and fluidly shaped modules, creating a seamless, quasi-organic unity that can be either rounded and self-enclosed, or open and potentially infinite. The latter designs have proved useful and attractive for use in eye-catching architectural walls and screens, often featuring complex patterns of undulating, tissue-like webbing, with apertures which transmit and filter light, while generating delicate patterns of shadow. 81:
that were just beginning to emerge. As Carlberg recalls, within his artistic circle "you analysed, you looked at something, but you looked at it formally just for what it was and the message was almost always out of it."
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form, especially what he calls "saddle surfaces," which combine convex and concave curvature and thus allow for smooth self-combination, sometimes in multiple dimensions. Another inspiration is the sculpture of
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Sculpture 2000 : the twentieth anniversary of the Montpelier invitational sculpture exhibition, Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, June 8 - August 18, 2000
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Directors' choice : an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum College of Art, Broad and Pine Streets, January 14 through February 7, 1961
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page on Norman Carlberg, including some comment by the artist on the modular constructivist style
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which held itself aloof from some of the other artistic trends of the time, such as the
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Recent sculpture U.S.A. Sponsored by the Junior Council of the Museum of Modern Art
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Philadelphia Museum College of Art; Paul Darrow; Ed Rossbach; Walter Reinsel;
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Erwin Hauer : Continua - architectural screens and walls by Erwin Hauer
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that emerged in the 1950s and 1960s and was associated especially with
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Hauer's enthusiasm caught the imagination of his colleague at
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Information on Erwin Hauer Studios from architonic.com
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New Arts Gallery information on Erwin Hauer including
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Structured sculpture : December 1960-January 1961
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sculpture
Erwin Hauer
Norman Carlberg

biomorphic
Henry Moore
Yale
Norman Carlberg
Josef Albers
formalism
minimalism
pop art
post-modernism

Constructivism (art)
Serial art
Structured sculpture : December 1960-January 1961
New York City
OCLC
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Erwin Hauer : Continua - architectural screens and walls by Erwin Hauer
ISBN
1-56898-455-3
Sculpture 2000 : the twentieth anniversary of the Montpelier invitational sculpture exhibition, Montpelier Cultural Arts Center, June 8 - August 18, 2000
OCLC
Museum of Modern Art

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