135 år sedan skulptören Constantin Brâncuși föddes

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Från en bokpresentation som görs på bokus.com  för en bok av Carolyn Lanchner:

The elegant and exquisitely shaped sculptures of Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) are easily among the most iconic sculptures created in the twentieth century. "There are those idiots who define my work as abstract," he once said; "yet what they call abstract is what is most realistic. What is real is not the appearance but the idea, the essence of things."

http://www.bokus.com/bok/9780870707872/constantin-brancusi/
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Från en annan bokpresentation: James Pearson, Constantin Brancusi, sculpting the essence of the things:

http://cdon.se/b%C3%B6cker/pearson,_james/constantin_brancusi-5150793

Constantin Brancusi is one of the greatest of all sculptors, and a key sculptor of the modern era, with Rodin and Picasso. His influence can be seen in a wide range of Western sculptors, including Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Henry Moore, Jean Arp, Barbara Hepworth, Minimalists and 'land' artists. This new book studies the religious and mythical dimensions of Brancusi's distinctive 'eggs', 'fishes', 'heads' and 'columns'. His central quest was for the 'essence of things', which resulted in purifying a form until the essence was left.

Se även:

http://www.ne.se/constantin-brancusi

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantin_Br%C3%A2ncu%C5%9Fi

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/brancusi_constantin.html

http://searchengineland.com/google-doodle-honors-constantin-brancusis-135th-birthday-65503



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