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- Eastern Blocks: Romanian Politics Go To Preschool
A new toy designed by artist couple Monotremu puts Brancusi’s minimalist sculptures into play. It takes a certain kind of artist couple to see Romanian politics in a project inspired by their toddler son--and to see some futility, or at least room for improvement, in kids at play in a park. “Our first idea [for] the wooden toys came some time ago, watching a few kids playing alone in a park ...
June 27, 2013 - Fast Company Magazine
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- Carl Andre in Los Angeles Times
I was carving like Brancusi, my master,Andre says of Constantin Brancusi, a Romanian Modernist. "Frank said I could carve in his studio when he wasn't there. But he told me that if he found me painting in his studio, he would cut off my... - Mircea Eliade in International Herald Tribune
Late Romanian-born writer and religious historian Mircea Eliade described him as "the real successor to Brancusi," Romania's best-known artist, Weber said in a statement. - Isamu Noguchi in New York Times
Communication was through the eyes,Noguchi wrote, "through gesture and through materials and tools to be used. Brancusi would show me for instance precisely how a chisel should be held and how to true a plane of limestone. He would show me...