L'ATELIER DE BRÂNCUŞI – UNE SYNERGIE DE VALEURS, DISCOURS, PRAXIS
Brancusi's workshop - a synergy of values, discourses and practices

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Summary/Abstract: A true avant-garde man, Brâncuşi followed the thought of the matter by cutting and simplifying it inorder to move closer to the real meaning of things. His workshop of the Impasse Ronsinfrequented by Apollinaire, Tzara, André Salmon, Blaise Cendrars, Erik Satie, Le DouanierRousseau, Modigliani, M. Duchamp, Jean Cocteau, Raymond Radiguet, Paul Morand, RaymondQueneau, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, Benjamin Fondane, Militsa Petraşcu, Eugène Ionesco, wasfor almost thirty years a true laboratory of artistic and literary works. The wise man of Hobiţa calledby Salmon “the Mallarmé of statues” knew how to combine in his cosmogony both archetypal andavant-garde values, reflections, readings, goals, techniques and thus contributing significantly tothe artistic and spiritual revolution of the first half of the 20th century.

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