Brancusi

by CABANNE PIERRE

• ISBN13: 9782879393148
• ISBN10: 2879393140
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-09-01
• Publisher: Terrail

Summary

Brancusi is with Rodin, his opposite, the most important sculptor of the 20th century. Born in Romania he will meet Modigliani in Paris where he settles in 1904 and where he will also become a close friend of Marcel Duchamp. The core of his work is made of heads, women or muses, birds and animals, sensuous egg-shaped and slender artefacts: his art was a quest for the "deep meaning of things". France, which he first scandalized, honored him later on while Romania celebrated his genious by asking him to build the huge Tirgu-Jiu ensemble out of which stems the legendary "Endless Pillar". All of his life, Brancusi, lonely father figure, polished, refined, repeated, dispaced and constantly photographed sculptures and pedestals wich he will donate to the French State. Brancusi's studio was entirely rebuilt in front of the Beaubourg Contempory Art Museum in Paris and can be visit. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

The Studio on Impasse Ronsin	p. 8
1876-1907 Youth	p. 14
A Dual Culture: Eastern and Popular	p. 16
An "Initiate" in Search of Adventure	p. 22
Photographic Mise en Scene	p. 28
Wood: the Great Discovery	p. 30
First Major Work: The Prayer	p. 38
Sheer Emotional Power: The Kiss	p. 48
1908-1912 Maturation	p. 60
Intense Experimentation	p. 62
Modigliani and "Negro" Art	p. 72
Sleeping Muse and the Ovoid Faces	p. 78
Maiastra, the Fabulous Bird	p. 88
Life in Montparnasse, 1910-1920	p. 94
Mademoiselle Pogany	p. 104
1913-1918 First Successes	p. 112
The Forst Solo Exhibition and the Beginnings of a Reputation	p. 114
The First Step: an Ambiguous Return to Africa	p. 122
The First Endless Column	p. 134
Return to the Ovoid: The Newborn	p. 142
The Princesse X Scandal	p. 148
1919-1937 Soaring	p. 158
Birds and a Bestiary	p. 160
Duchamp, Friendship and Love Affairs	p. 178
Paul Morand: Brancusi, "A Sculptor of the People"	p. 186
Big Cocks	p. 188
Brancusi v.s. Unites States Trial	p. 202
Nancy Cunard, a "Sophisticated Young Woman"	p. 206
Three Birds Move into Indore	p. 212
1938-1957 Apotheosis	p. 222
Tirgu-Jiu	p. 224
A New Bird and Variants on The Kiss	p. 232
Peggy Guggenheim Remembers	p. 236
Ionesco's The Chairs in Brancusi's Studio	p. 242
A Place of Magic Lost	p. 250
Notes	p. 252
Bibliography	p. 254
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