"Nicolas Schöffer (1912–1992) formulated his idea of a kinetic art that was not only active and reactive, like the work of his contemporaries, but also autonomous and proactive, in Paris in the 1950s. He developed sculptural concepts he called Spatiodynamism (1948)."
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Phil Husbands, Owen Holland, Michael Wheeler (2008). The Mechanical Mind in History, p. 265
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