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...dilettantes gathered round an object, gaping, making a murmur of "Is it a bird? If it isn't, what is it? Whatever it is, is it art?" It was tall, shiny, spindling, like a magnification of an exclamation point, like a Freudian symbol. Manufactured by famed Sculptor Constantin Brancusi of Rumania, it was titled, with a supreme disregard of appearance, with an arrogant, baffling simplicity, "The Bird...
Last week this scene was replayed in the Customs Court of Appeals in Manhattan. Another one of Brancusi's birds, a bright, sinuous piece of brass pipe, tapering at the ends in a not perfectly symmetrical curve, has been shipped from Paris to Edward Steichen, Manhattan photographer and artist. Denied duty-free admission as a work of art, it had been subjected to a tax of $229.35, more than a third of what Purchaser Steichen had paid for it. Appealing the decision, Purchaser Steichen appeared in court accompanied by experts who would support his claim that the bright enigma...
...Waite. Assistant Attorney General Marcus Higgenbotham said: "A mechanic could have done this thing." Countered Sculptor Epstein: "No ... he could have polished this but he could not have conceived it." Finally, sick of a nagging, abstruse controversy, Justice Waite intelligently decided to delay a decision until testimony from Birdmaker Brancusi, now in Paris, could be secured...
Birdmaker Brancusi's U. S. attorney said: "Brancusi takes this action against "The Bird" as a challenge to all his art and to his reputation." Director William Henry Fox offered to buy "The Bird" for the Brooklyn Museum, "if the funds and the sculpture were available...
Constantin Brancusi is a man who leaves his critics shuddering, growling, bearing eyeteeth at each other, mumbling through cold masks of horror. His defenders on the other hand shout their quick praises in a complicated language. Famed Poet Carl Sandburg has written this poem...