Word: brancusi
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...Brancusi roll, sold in Greenwich Village bakeshops, is S shaped, pointed at either end. suggestive of the ultra-simplified fish and bird shapes Sculptor Brancusi makes...
...into his home, gave him his own studio to work in. worked over him as hard as any horse trainer with a promising yearling. In 1927 the colt came through with a Guggenheim Fellowship. Isamu Noguchi went to Paris and immediately apprenticed himself as a stone cutter to Constantin Brancusi. one of the few sculptors to have a piece of pastry named after...
Among the instruments, nuts and nudes on view last week were portraits of Sculptor Constantin Brancusi. Painters Andre Derain, Joseph Stella. Pablo Picasso, Novelist Sinclair Lewis, Negrophile Nancy Cunard, Torch-Singer Yvonne George, Cinemactress Lois Moran (when she was a child ballerina in the Paris opera). Also exhibited were views of assorted sections of his favorite model, Miss Lee Miller, known as "Lee-Girl" to her intimates, widely celebrated as the possessor of the most beautiful navel in Paris. She too is a photographer, has taken many pictures...
...present exhibition, which seems doomed to be the last, is regarded, from a cultural point of view as one of the best ever staged. Particularly interesting is an original El Greco never before publicly shown. Other appealing exhibits of merit are works by O'Keefe, Picasso, Bauer, Gaugain and Brancusi. The only tangible steps to insure survival of the organization are a rapid increase in membership or other subscriptions, the director stated. Student membership in the society entails annual dues of two dollars
...Buckminster Fuller's Dymaxion house is being shown this week at the rooms of the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art: When the first rumors of its marvels began to circulate in Cambridge, there was more cynicism and discountenance than even at Brancusi's Golden--Bird, or at the Modern French pictures. Consider a house which is primarily a machine to live in, which can be manufactured in mass, assembled at service stations and delivered in 24 hours, costing as a minimum $500 a ton. Its translucent watts is of casein, its inflatable doors and floors, its collapsible mast, its bathroom...