Brancusi Cameo (Great Modern Masters)
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Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 730.92
EAN: 9780810946934
ISBN: 0810946939
Label: Harry N. Abrams
Manufacturer: Harry N. Abrams
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 64
Publication Date: 1997-09-01
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Studio: Harry N. Abrams
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Summary: Adequate text, excellent photos
Comment: This is a good, brief overview of Brancusi's life and work that features magnificent photographs of all of the significant pieces in his oeuvre, a modest biography, brief explanations of his inspirations, technique and subject matter, and fairly detailed descriptions of his most popular sculptures and structures.
While the text is nothing more or less than adequate, the photos tell the informed viewer more about the sculptor and his work than any clumsily literal narrative ever could. Regardless of whether his renderings referenced the mundane or the elevated, Brancusi conveyed more about the fundamental aspects of said subjects by rendering them as simple, elegant shapes than most of his classical predecessors could ever have aspired to. His legacy consists of a body of work that is as much a celebration of human intuition as it is a testament to what can be accomplished by the artist who makes a goal of perfection - and quite frequently comes very close to achieving it.
The quality of this book's content easily rivals that of volumes that are twice as thick and three times as expensive. I only wish that it wasn't out of print.
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Summary: not much more than a train reading
Comment: this a very modest summary on brancusi's works. it's rather superficial and at times it's wasted on tangents of little value--such as the reference to brancusi's sexuality. i gave it 2 stars mostly for the photo reproductions.
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Summary: Not much meat to this book.
Comment: I was looking forward to receiving this book but was disappointed. It did not provide any more than a few visual cues on the artist's best known pieces. I had hoped for notes on his start, inspirations, and other less known pieces of artwork.
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