Brancusi's gates and columns : nineteenth-century rites of passage in twentieth-century art and architecture

Author

Gheorghiu, Dragos

Document type

Article (journal)

Language

English

Source

Nineteenth-century contexts. 1999, Num. 1, Vol. 21, 41-62, 3 ill.

ISSN

0890-5495

Abstract (en)

Prompted by the exhibition of his works at the Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris), examines the work of Brancusi for 19th-c. subjects transposed to 20th-c. forms, particularly the holistic religious symbolism of Eros-Thanatos as revealed in his gates and columns. Seeks formal and symbolic prototypes for the work, especially the Memorial from Tirgu-Jiu, in Romanian art and architecture as well as Parisian modernism.

Subject (en)

• General history of art -- 1800-1945 -- Sculpture -- Romania
• Brâncuşi, Constantin, 1876-1957
• Sculpture
• Romania
• 1900-2000
• Sources
• Death
• Eroticism
• Gates
• Columns
• Symbolism
• Tîrgu Jiu (ROM)
• Commemorative monuments

Subject (fr)

• Histoire générale de l'art -- 1800-1945 -- Sculpture -- Roumanie
• Brâncuşi, Constantin, 1876-1957
• Sculpture
• Roumanie
• 1900-2000
• Sources
• Mort
• Erotisme
• Porte [gate]
• Colonne
• Symbolisme
• Tîrgu Jiu (ROM)
• Monument commémoratif

Origin

DatabaseBHA (Inist-CNRS/GRI)

Identifier19990701-00208036

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