Constantin Brancusi

Author : Friedrich Teja Bach,Margit Rowell,Ann Temkin,Philadelphia Museum of Art,Centre Georges Pompidou
Publisher : Philadelphia Museum (PA)
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Art
ISBN : 0876330979

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Constantin Brancusi, 1876-1957 by Friedrich Teja Bach,Margit Rowell,Ann Temkin,Philadelphia Museum of Art,Centre Georges Pompidou Pdf

In twentieth-century sculpture, one name towers above all others: Romanian-born Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957). This book accompanies a major retrospective exhibition of Brancusi's sculpture, drawings, and photographs, organized by the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris. Profusely illustrated throughout, with photographs by the artist and images culled from a wide range of archival sources, it is the most definitive work yet published on this influential artist. The authors provide a detailed reassessment of Brancusi's work, incorporating and extending the profound revisions in scholarship that have been taking place since the last major retrospective in 1969-70.

Author : Carolyn Lanchner
Publisher : The Museum of Modern Art
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780870707872

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Constantin Brancusi by Carolyn Lanchner Pdf

Text by Carolyn Lanchner.

Author : Pierre Cabanne
Publisher : Pierre Terrail
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : STANFORD:36105111940206

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Constantin Brancusi by Pierre Cabanne Pdf

Brancusi is one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century. He worked in wood, marble and stone, creating works of pure shapes which often took their inspiration from nature.

Author : Sanda Miller
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781861897251

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Constantin Brancusi by Sanda Miller Pdf

Acknowledged as one of the major sculptors and avant-garde artists of the twentieth century, Constantin Brancusi (1876–1957) was also one of the most elusive, despite his fame. His mysterious nature was not only due to his upbringing in Romania—which, at the time, was still regarded by much of Europe as a backward country haunted by vampires and werewolves—but also because Brancusi was aware that myth and an aura of otherness appealed to the public. His self-mythology remained intact until the publication of Brancusi in 1986 by Romanian artists Alexandre Istrati and Natalia Dumitresco, who made available a small selection of the archive of Brancusi’s correspondence. And in 2003, a comprehensive catalogue, which made the bulk of Brancusi’s private correspondence public for the first time, was published by the Centre Pompidou to accompany a retrospective on Brancusi’s work. In Constantin Brancusi, Sanda Miller employs these extensive new resources to better assess Brancusi’s life and work in relationship to each other, providing valuable and innovative insights into his relationships with friends, collectors, dealers and lovers. Miller’s perceptive book allows Brancusi to finally take his rightful place among the most important of the intellectual personalities who shaped twentieth-century modernism.

Author : Constantin Brancusi,Richard Serra,Fondation Beyeler
Publisher : Hatje Cantz Pub
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Art
ISBN : 377572821X

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Serra Brancusi by Constantin Brancusi,Richard Serra,Fondation Beyeler Pdf

"The starting point for this book is the work of Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), as expressed in his reduction of volume to tease out formal essence. Some thirty-five exemplary works by Brancusi, among them 'The Kiss' and the 'Column of the Infinite', thus initiate a line of inquiry into the essence and the possibilities of sculpture, the discussion of which continues with a selection of works from different periods by Richard Serra (born 1939), whose art opens up new 'ways of seeing' to his viewers. The resulting juxtaposition of Brancusi's sensuous modeling of marble, bronze, wood, and plaster with Serra's minimalist steel sculptures set in motion a fascinating dialogue. The essays by Friedrich Teja Bach, Alfred Pacquement, Oliver Wick, and others conspire with the concentrated selection of works to underscore not only the contrasts between these two pioneering artists, but also their common ground enabling the reader to experience anew the universal power of sculpture." --Jacket.

Author : Anna Chave
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300055269

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Constantin Brancusi by Anna Chave Pdf

"Constantin Brancusi - the most influential sculptor of the twentieth century - is usually viewed as a sculptor of pure, perfect, essential forms and as a lone visionary and exotic peasant-sage, aloof from both the social concerns of his age and from avant-garde affiliations." "In this fascinating book, Anna C. Chave explodes many of the myths about Brancusi, offering a revised view of the sculptor as an artist creatively responding to avant-garde and social concerns of his day. Using both feminist and social-historical lenses to view Brancusi's art, she explores the complex ways in which his works undermine established cultural hierarchies, challenge the fixed nature of sexual identity, and renounce notions of mastery and authority. She discusses, most specifically, how the imperiled status of the subject in an alienated, technological age is addressed by Brancusi's fragmented figures and by the displacement of the masculine by the feminine subject in his production; how the inward-looking, modern subject is invoked by Brancusi's polished, mirroring sculptures, which invite narcissistic reflection; how the changing status of the handmade object in the age of mass production is suggested by Brancusi's use of repetition; how the perceived erosion of gender boundaries in the modern age is treated in numerous sculptures involving scrambled sexual signs; and how the search for new means of transcendence and liberation is evinced in the reinvigorated image of sexual love and spiritual striving glimpsed in certain of Brancusi's most important works. By examining these achievements and his reimagining of the concept of the base - which he generally poised in a dialogic and shifting relation to his sculpture - Chave shows how Brancusi shifted the foundations of art."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Jerome Neutres
Publisher : Editions Assouline
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 1614281963

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Brancusi New York by Jerome Neutres Pdf

The pure, abstract sculptures made by Constantin Brancusi have had a large and enthusiastic audience in New York ever since they were first shown on American soil at the 1913 Armory Show. The numerous American collectors, muses, friends, and exhibitions that enabled his success had a profound influence on the eccentric Romanian artist who lived in Paris. And the feeling was definitely reciprocated. From the trial concerning his Bird in Space--which helped define modern art--to his first museum retrospective, and his dream of a skyscraper sculpture, New York was the place where Brancusi's career unfolded. Over the last one hundred years his effect on the city's art scene has never waned. Through stunning archival images and text by Brancusi authority Jérôme Neutres, Brancusi New York tells the story of the mutually beneficial relationship between the sculptor and the Big Apple. The book also features gorgeous new photographs of the five bronze sculptures on display at the Paul Kasmin Gallery in New York for the exhibition Brancusi in New York: 1913-2013.

Author : Paola Mola,Alessio delli Castelli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Sculpture, Romanian
ISBN : 3956790820

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The Brancusi Effect by Paola Mola,Alessio delli Castelli Pdf

Presents archival documents of Brancusi's second solo exhibition at Brummer Gallery, New York, which opened on November 17, 1933.

Author : Sidney Geist,Constantin Brancusi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39076001009013

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Brancusi by Sidney Geist,Constantin Brancusi Pdf

...The universality of Brancusi, his paradoxical simplicity and inclusiveness, have never been more strikingly demonstrated than in Sidney Geist's study of the artist. The interpenetration of the sculptor's life and his art, and the beautifully logical course of his artistic evolution are brilliantly revealed by Mr. Geist, who is a reowned authority on Brancusi, a professor of art at Vassar, and a sculptor himself. Every facet of the work, including the graphics, is handsomely displayed in the numerous, large-scale illustrations. In addition, this definitive new volume on Brancusi includes a chronology of the artist's life, a bibliography, a fully documented catalogue of Brancusi's complete oeuvre, and a unique concordance which collates the sculptures catalogued in all the major books on Brancusi currently in print. -- from front flap.

Author : Moshe Idel
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2005-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9637326030

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Ascensions on High in Jewish Mysticism by Moshe Idel Pdf

Ascensions on high took many forms in Jewish mysticism and they permeated most of its history from its inception until Hasidism. The book surveys the various categories, with an emphasis on the archetectural images of the ascent, like the resort images of pillars, lines, and ladders.

Author : Eric Shanes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Sculptors
ISBN : 0896599299

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Constantin Brancusi by Eric Shanes Pdf

"Though enjoying the pose of a canny peasant, he was, in fact, a sophisticated artist who distilled a multitude of sources into his highly complex work."--BOOK COVER.

Author : Karl Ruhrberg,Klaus Honnef,Manfred Schneckenburger,Christiane Fricke
Publisher : Taschen
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 3822859079

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Art of the 20th Century by Karl Ruhrberg,Klaus Honnef,Manfred Schneckenburger,Christiane Fricke Pdf

The original edition of this ambitious reference was published in hardcover in 1998, in two oversize volumes (10x13"). This edition combines the two volumes into one; it's paperbound ("flexi-cover"--the paper has a plastic coating), smaller (8x10", and affordable for art book buyers with shallower pockets--none of whom should pass it by. The scope is encyclopedic: half the work (originally the first volume) is devoted to painting; the other half to sculpture, new media, and photography. Chapters are arranged thematically, and each page displays several examples (in color) of work under discussion. The final section, a lexicon of artists, includes a small bandw photo of each artist, as well as biographical information and details of work, writings, and exhibitions. Ruhrberg and the three other authors are veteran art historians, curators, and writers, as is editor Walther. c. Book News Inc.

Author : Eric Shanes
Publisher : Modern Masters Series
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015014091204

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Constantin Brancusi by Eric Shanes Pdf

"Though enjoying the pose of a canny peasant, he was, in fact, a sophisticated artist who distilled a multitude of sources into his highly complex work."--BOOK COVER.

Author : Eric Shanes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Sculptors
ISBN : 0896599248

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Constantin Brancusi by Eric Shanes Pdf

"Though enjoying the pose of a canny peasant, he was, in fact, a sophisticated artist who distilled a multitude of sources into his highly complex work."--BOOK COVER.

Author : Herschel Browning Chipp,Herschel B. Chipp,Peter Selz
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520014502

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Theories of Modern Art by Herschel Browning Chipp,Herschel B. Chipp,Peter Selz Pdf