ICR Romanian Cultural Institute London

Book launch: Constantin Brancusi by Sanda Miller

                   

The Romanian Cultural Institute and Reaktion Books launch the book Constantin Brancusi by art historian Sanda Miller.

Part of the series 'Critical Lives' published by Reaktion Books, Sanda Miller's new addition focuses on Brancusi's odyssey from a small village in his native Romania to the heart of bohemia in Paris and the people he gathered around him: friends, dealers, collectors, lovers, and assorted sycophants who regularly visited his 'white' atelier in Montparnasse filled with the numinous sculpture.

Brancusi's self-mythology remained intact until the publication of Brancusi in 1986 by Romanian artists Alexandre Istrati and Natalia Dumitresco, who made available a small selection of the archive of Brancusi's correspondence. And in 2003, a comprehensive catalogue, which made the bulk of Brancusi's private correspondence public for the first time, was published by the Centre Pompidou to accompany a retrospective on Brancusi's work. In Constantin Brancusi, Sanda Miller employs these extensive new resources to better assess Brancusi's life and work.

Book signing, together with a performance of Erik Satie by concert pianist and President of the Chopin Society UK, Lady Rose Cholmondeley.

Sanda Miller is an Art Historian, Senior Lecturer of Fashion, Art & Society at the Southampton Solent University. Her previous books include Constantin Brancusi: A Survey of His Work and The Dark Night of the Soul: Ana Maria Pacheco.

When: 25 March 2010, 7 - 9pm;
Where: Romanian Cultural Institute London.
Admission: by invitation. Please contact ush if you want to attend.