BRANCUSI, CONSTANTIN

bränkyooˈzē, Rom. bränˈkoosh, 1876–1957, Romanian sculptor. Brancusi is considered one of the foremost of modern artists. In 1904 he went to Paris, where he worked under Mercié. He declined Rodin's invitation to work in his studio. Because of his radical, economic style, his abstract sculptures, The Kiss (1908), Sleeping Muse (1910), and the portrait of Mlle Pogany (1923; Musée d'Art moderne, Paris) were the subjects of much controversy. He altered his technique from modeling to carving c.1910. In 1927 Brancusi won a lawsuit against the U.S. customs authorities who attempted to value his sculpture as raw metal. The suit led to legal changes permitting the importation of abstract art free of duty. Brancusi's work is notable for its extreme simplification of form, its organic and frequently symbolic character, and its consummate craftsmanship. He had a profound understanding of materials, working primarily in metal, stone, and wood. Bird in Space (1919; Mus. of Modern Art, New York City) is a characteristic work. Others are in the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, and in the museums of Chicago, Cleveland, and Philadelphia.

See catalog by S. Geist (1969); biographies by I. Jianu (1963), R. Varia (1986), and E. Shanes (1989); studies by S. Geist (1967) and A. T. Spear (1969).

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Contemporary Sculpture: An Evolution in Volume and Space
Book by Carola Giedion-Welcker; George Wittenborn, 1960
Subjects: Sculptors, Sculpture, Modern--20th Century--History
...1931. It was thanks to Constantin Brancusi that modern plastic art was...expression of the human soul. Constantin Brancusi Supplice Torment 1906 Bronze...Modigliani and his friend Constantin Brancusi. Prehistoric Effigy Persian...
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Modern Sculpture: Origins and Evolution
Book by Jean Selz, Annette Michelson; George Braziller, 1963
Subjects: Sculpture, Modern--20th Century
...of the nose in the center of an oval haze. With a slight geometricization and a smoother surface, we would almost have a Brancusi. Plates 103 , 97 , 99 If Rosso really believed his sculpture would make the viewer "forget the medium," he was...
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Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe: From the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism
Book by Richard Frucht; Garland Pub., 2000
Subjects: Europe, Eastern--Encyclopedias
...Chicago and Abbeville . New York, 1982. Constantine, Mildred and Jack L. Larsen. The Art...important Albanian-American leaders included Constantine Chekrezi (1892 1959) and Christo Dako...Treptow Further reading Chekrezi, Constantine A. Albania: Past and Present . New...
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A Concise History of Modern Painting
Book by Herbert Read; Frederick A. Praeger, 1959
Subjects: Painting, Modern--20th Century
...strict transpositions of CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI The Sleeping Muse. 1909-26...individualist: the Rumanian Constantin Brancusi 1876- 1957 . And not...Woman. 1910-13 CONSTANTIN BRANCUSI Young Girls Head. 1907-8...
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Art and Psychoanalysis
Book by Laurie Adams; IconEditions, 1993
Subjects: Psychoanalysis And Art
...Frankfurt, 1550. 58. Constantin Brancusi, Bird in Space . Bronze...Sidney Geist. 59. Constantin Brancusi, Studio Photograph of Bird...1964, 64.165.2. 76. Constantin Brancusi, Study for The First Step...
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The Anti-Historicist Approach: Brancusi, "Our Contemporary"
Journal article by Roxana Marcoci; Art Journal, Vol. 59, 2000
Subjects: Brancusi, Constantin--Works, Sculptors--Influence
...from Marcel Duchamp and Constantin Brancusi to Vladimir Tatlin and Aleksandr...tower on two artists works: Constantin Brancusis Endless Column in Romania...Form-Classes in the Work of Constantin Brancusi." Puryear: Morris and Serra...
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The "Foreignness" of Classical Modern Art in Romania
Journal article by S.A. Mansbach; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 80, 1998
Subjects: Art, Classical--Romania, Art, Modern--Romania, Classicism in art--Research, Romania--Art
...object - reprising in painting Constantin Brancusis incorporation of the base...Peter Lang, 1993). 20. Constantin Brancusi, probably the best-known...sculptures" by the Romanians Constantin Brancusi, Marcel Janco, Gheorghe Petrascu...
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Between Silence and Benality: the Poetic Search for Community
Journal article by Richard N. Masteller; College Literature, Vol. 24, 1997
Subjects: American Literature--History And Criticism, English Literature--History And Criticism
...century American literature. He has published on western stereographs, on the American reception of the sculptor Constantin Brancusi, and on the satiric vision of Reginald Marsh and John Dos Passos. Poets who seek an audience speak explicitly...
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Biography: Jeanne Robert Foster
Journal article by E.P. Walkiewicz; English Literature in Transition 1880-1920, Vol. 46, 2003
Subjects: Dear Yeats, Dear Pound, Dear Ford: Jeanne Robert Foster and Her Circle of Friends (Book)
...Yeats, Ezra Pound, and Ford Madox Ford, but also Constantin Brancusi and Gwen John. During her remarkable life, she also...her benefit "informal moments with people such as Brancusi, Matisse and Picasso" or asked her to record for...
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American Artists in Paris, 1918 - 1939: A Transatlantic Avant-Garde
Journal article by Jill Conner; Afterimage, Vol. 31, 2003
...World Wars, before bringing their ideas back to the United States. Photographs by Berenice Abbott, Eugene Atget, Constantin Brancusi, Lee Miller, Man Ray and Edward Steichen collectively reflect the documentation of some of the most influential...
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Constantin Brancusi
Magazine article by Arthur C. Danto; The Nation, Vol. 262, January 22, 1996
Subjects: Brancusi, Constantin--Criticism and interpretation, Photography--Criticism and interpretation, Sculpture--Criticism and interpretation
Constantin Brancusi. by Arthur C. Danto In...together with Marcel Duchamp and Constantin Brancusi, attended a Salon of Aviation in Paris...saying a word. Suddenly he turned to Brancusi: "Painting has come to an end. Who...
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'Supreme Sensitivity' Is a Brancusi Constant
Magazine article by Michael Gibson; Insight on the News, Vol. 11, October 16, 1995
Subjects: Brancusi, Constantin--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sculptors--Exhibitions
...by Michael Gibson Simplicity," said Constantin Brancusi, "is complexity resolved." This striking aphorism...when modified by the hand of the sculptor." "Constantin Brancusi" is at the Philadelphia Museum of Art from Oct...
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Constantin the Great
Magazine article by Charlotte Crow; History Today, Vol. 54, January 2004
Subjects: Brancusi, Constantin--Works, Sculptors
...Matthew Gale, co-curator of Constantin Brancusi: The Essence of Things, at...intolerance. Charlotte Crow Constantin Brancusi: the Essence of Things" at...of the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi A book of the some title...
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Figure Heads
Magazine article by Richard Cork; New Statesman, Vol. 133, February 9, 2004
Subjects: Art exhibitions--Criticism and interpretation, Art--Criticism and interpretation, Art--Exhibitions, Art--United Kingdom, Brancusi, Constantin--Exhibitions, Sculpture--Exhibitions, Sculpture--United Kingdom, Tate Modern--Exhibitions
...or cast with magisterial finality, the work of Constantin Brancusi is a cornerstone of modern sculpture. Leave him...ignite. amp;#91;ILLUSTRATION OMITTED amp;#93; "Constantin Brancusi: the essence of things" is at Tate Modern, London...
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A Kiss for Us
Magazine article by John Berger; Artforum International, Vol. 34, November 1995
Subjects: Brancusi, Constantin--Works, Sculptors--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Sculpture, Modern--20th century
...Me? Im standing in the biggest ever Brancusi exhibition in Paris. No lichen, no feathers...a friend of his. I remember the name BRANCUSI scrawled on the door with a horseshoe...today. Yet the doubt is appropriate, for Brancusi had the perplexing gift of being entirely...
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National Gallery Unveils 'A Century of Drawing'
Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, November 17, 2001
...confrontational "Womans Head" by Constantin Brancusi, which opens the exhibit "A Century...and used them extensively. Brancusis female portrait at the start...eyes have it not only with the Brancusi and the Matisses but with images...
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Rare 'Encounters' with the Rothschild Collection: Works on Exhibit in Washington for First Major Show since '66
Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, September 29, 1996
...Rivera, Giorgio de Chirico, Constantin Brancusi and Juan Gris, among others...Boccionis "The Laugh" (1911), Constantin Brancusis gleaming bronze masterpiece...and her husband got the dour Brancusi to part with "The Muse" is...
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Noguchi's Good-Earth Sculptures
Newspaper article; The Washington Times, May 31, 2003
...studied with the Romanian-French modernist sculptor Constantin Brancusi in Paris. The 3-foot-plus-tall "Queen," in which...forms for a human-looking column, drew from both Brancusis abstractions of women and prehistoric Japanese "haniwa...
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Impoverished Romanian Children Healthier Than Those in Britain
Newspaper article; The Birmingham Post (England), August 5, 2006
Subjects: Children, Poverty
...teenagers from the Wey Valley School Sports College, in Weymouth, Dorset, as part of an exchange project with the Constantin Brancusi school in Cluj, Transylvania. They put 100 students, aged 11 to 15, from both schools through tests including...
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Reclining Vitality of Sculptor's Works
Newspaper article by Joanna Shaw-Eagle; The Washington Times, October 20, 2001
Subjects: Moore, Henry
...unified visions" of African art. Visitors will see these influences - and borrowings from modernists Jean Arp, Constantin Brancusi and Pablo Picasso - in the exhibition "Henry Moore," opening tomorrow at the National Gallery of Art. The show...
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Brancusi, Constantin
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
BRANCUSI, CONSTANTIN brankyoo ze, Rom. bran koosh, 1876 1957, Romanian sculptor. Brancusi is considered one of the foremost of...modeling to carving c.1910. In 1927 Brancusi won a lawsuit against the U.S. customs...
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Oceanic Art
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...Particular aspects of Melanesian art had an enormous impact on European artists, including Max Ernst and Constantin Brancusi (Sepik River style), Alberto Giacometti and Henry Moore (New Ireland style), during the period from 1915...
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Sculpture
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2007
...and highly original applications of the art are sculptors working internationally, including Pablo Picasso , Constantin Brancusi , Jacques Lipschitz, Naum Gabo , Antoine Pevsner , Ossip Zadkine , Alberto Giacometti , and Ivan Mestrovic...


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