Brancusi: The Artist and His Studio - Hardcover Book

Over the course of his long career, the legendary sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1876–1957) produced hundreds of photographs documenting the evolution of his artworks and the unique setting in which they were created. These luminous images capture Brancusi’s ever-changing studio across a span of more than thirty years, and range from intimate studies of individual sculptures to wide-angle views of carefully ordered ensembles. Striking scenes of artworks in progress, sculptors’ tools, and raw materials—including salvaged oak beams and rough blocks of marble—offer behind-the-scenes glimpses of Brancusi’s creative process. Photographs of the artist alongside visitors including Man Ray, Berenice Abbott, Marcel Duchamp, and Mina Loy show the studio as a lively space of work, play, and display. Brancusi’s photographs bring to life his sculptures and his studio as he wanted them to be seen with extraordinary vividness and intimacy. Featuring more than 130 exquisite reproductions of the artist’s photographs, this lavishly illustrated volume offers a revealing portrait of Brancusi’s dynamic environment that ultimately became a work of art in its own right.