Art Is Absolute Truth
Constantin Brancusi in His Own Words
$29.93
- Paperback
136 pages
- Release Date
17 January 2027
Summary
For decades, Brancusi’s sayings have been repeated like relics: translated, altered, mythologized, and made to serve the legend of the artist. This book returns them to the workshop. Drawn from the Brancusi archive at the Bibliothèque Kandinsky, Centre Pompidou, these notes, aphorisms, reflections, literary writings, and autobiographical fragments recover the artist’s thought before it hardened into quotation.
Brancusi wrote in an idiosyncratic Franco-Romanian, outside ordinary gramma…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781971559414 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1971559415 |
| Author: | Constantin Brancusi, Doïna Lemny |
| Publisher: | ERIS |
| Imprint: | ERIS |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 136 |
| Release Date: | 17 January 2027 |
| Dimensions: | 133mm x 229mm |
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Critics Review
“An initiation into Brancusi’s aesthetic, ethical, even esoteric universe.” * Le Litteraire *
The greatest sculptor of the twentieth century. – Calvin Tomkins * The New Yorker *
Constantin Brancusi
Doïna Lemny is an art historian and Brancusi specialist. She received her doctorate in art history from the University of Paris I–Sorbonne with a thesis on Brancusi’s artistic and cultural milieu, based on the artist’s legacy to the Musée National d’Art Moderne. From 1991 to 2019, she worked at the Musée National d’Art Moderne / Centre Pompidou in Paris and participated in the reinstallation of Brancusi’s studio. She is the author of numerous books on Brancusi and has curated several international exhibitions devoted to his work.
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