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Who gave Alexander Calderās moving sculptures the name mobiles?
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Alexander Calder
American artist Alexander Calder with one of his mobiles in his Roxbury, Connecticut, studio.
The term "mobile" was suggested by the artist Marcel Duchamp for a 1932 exhibition in Paris featuring Alexander Calderās motorized sculptures.1