Word: constantin
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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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...
...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...
Such a high court of culture as the U. S. Customs Bureau last week notified Rumanian Sculptor Constantin Brancusi that his statuary is not Art. This ultimatum followed long and learned discussions on the part of inspectors and it orders. Brancusi to pay a 40% import duty on about $10,000 worth of sculpture which he has disposed of in this country...
During the week additional developments concerning noted Russians often seen across the footlights included a report that Constantin Stanislavsky, Director of the Moscow Art Theatre, had been stricken blind in Moscow...
...including: Lecocq's The Daughter of Madame Angot; Aristophanes' Lysistrata, with music on Greek themes by the modern Russian composer, Reinhold Gliere; Carmencita and the Soldier, with the Bizet music for Carmen, a wholly new libretto drawn directly from Merimee's story by the Russian poet, Constantin Lipskerpff; Offenbach's La Perichole; a triple bill from Pushkin entitled Love and Death...