Word: brancusi
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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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...
...Brancusi is a galoot; he saves tickets to take him nowhere; a galoot with his baggage ready and no time table; ah yes, Brancusi is a galoot; he understands birds and skulls so well, he knows the hang of the hair of the coils and plaits on a woman's head, he knows them so far back he knows where they came from and where they are going; he is fathoming down for the secrets of the first and the oldest makers of shapes...
...Brancusi, keeping hardwood planks around your doorsteps in the sun waiting for the hardwood to be harder for your hard hands to handle, you, Brancusi, .with your chisels and hammers, birds going to cones, skulls going to eggs...
...Brancusi, you will not put a want ad in the papers telling God it will be to His advantage to come around to see you; ... if God is saving a corner for any battling bag of bones, there will be one for you, Brancusi...