Brancusi: The Sculpture and Drawings

New York, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc, 1975. Hardcover. Good+/Good+ (ex-library with labels and stamps on spine, block, inside front and rear covers and title page verso. Light shelfwear to boards and block. Pages are otherwise clear. Binding is tight.). Off-white cloth over boards; bw image on front cover and black lettering on spine; gray and white dust jacket with black lettering and color illustration; mylar cover; color illustrated tipped-in frontispiece; 200 pp.; 52 color, 240 bw plates and figures. Includes a chronology of Brancusi's life, as well as an essay, by Geist; "...The universality of Brancusi, his paradoxical simplicity and inclusiveness, have never been more strikingly demonstrated than in Sidney Geist's study of the artist. The interpenetration of the sculptor's life and his art, and the beautifully logical course of his artistic evolution are brilliantly revealed by Mr. Geist, who is a reowned authority on Brancusi, a professor of art at Vassar, and a sculptor himself. Every facet of the work, including the graphics, is handsomely displayed in the numerous, large-scale illustrations. In addition, this definitive new volume on Brancusi includes a chronology of the artist's life, a bibliography, a fully documented catalogue of Brancusi's complete oeuvre, and a unique concordance which collates the sculptures catalogued in all the major books on Brancusi currently in print."-- from front flap.