TY - BOOK AU - Brancusi,Constantin AU - Brancusi,Constantin AU - Faerna,José María TI - Brancusi SN - 0810946939 : AV - NB933.B7 A4 1997a PY - 1997/// CY - New York PB - Cameo/Abrams KW - Brancusi, Constantin, N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 63) N2 - Four decades after his death, Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957) remains perhaps the most revered of 20th-century sculptors. In his mature work, Brancusi defined a modern sensibility: he created drastically simplified shapes, stripped of "realistic" detail. Although considered a pioneer of abstract art, Brancusi himself claimed, "I never seek to make what they call a pure or abstract form"; Brancusi documents the life and work of this remarkably original and important modern artist with reproductions of his best-known works, a well-researched biographical outline, and a selection of the artist's own illuminating photographs of his work and studio ER -