Re-reading Brancusi: the Philadelphia story. (sculpture, Constantin Brancusi, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)

Art in America | January 1, 1996| | Copyright

Of the many anecdotes which punctuate the biography of Constantin Brancusi, my favorite has the creator of Bird in Space at a Paris aviation fair in 1912 with friends Marcel Duchamp and Fernand Leger. The trio pause to admire the sleek perfection of a metal propellor. Brancusi later recalled having observed that sculpture had found its new standard. Leger's version has Duchamp declaring that it was all over for painting. Duchamp couldn't recall the outing at all.

Perhaps I like the story because these three avatars of modernism together remind me of the classic joke ...

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