Constantin Brancusi: shifting the bases of art

Abstract

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.

Contents

About Brancusi -- 1. Figuration and Disfiguration: The Vanishing Muse -- 2. The Reflected and Reflective Gaze: For the Love of Narcissus -- 3. Princess X/Prince's Sex: Repositioning Gender -- 4. Fables of Creation: The Cosmogonic Egg -- 5. Difference, Displacement, and the Ethnographic Attitude -- 6. The Object on Trial: The Bird and the Base in Space -- 7. Public and Private Spaces: Monuments, Temples, and the Studio.