Gaudier-Brzeska : A Memoir
Literature by Ezra Pound
Ezra Poundās book on the French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska was first published in 1916. An enlarged edition, including thirty pages of illustrations (sculpture and drawings) as well as Poundās later pieces on Gaudier, was brought out in 1970, and is now re-issued as an ND Paperbook. The memoir is valuable both for the history of modern art and for what it shows us of Pound himself, his ability to recognize genius in others and then to publicize it effectively. Would there today be a Salle Gaudier-Brzeska in the MusĆ©e de LāArt Moderne in Paris if Pound had not championed him? Gaudierās talent was impressive and his Vorticist aesthetic important as theory, but he was killed in World War I at the age of twenty-three, leaving only a small body of work. Pound knew Gaudier in London, where the young artist had come with his companion, the Polish-born Sophie Brzeska. whose name he added to his own. They were living in poverty when Pound bought Gaudier the stone from which the famous āhieratic headā of the poet was made. Pound arranged exhibitions and for the publication of Gaudierās manifestoes in Blast and The Egoist. And he wrote and sent packages to him in the trenches, where Gaudierāāa sculptor to the lastāācarved a madonna and child from the butt of a captured German rifle, just two days before he died.
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Author: Ezra Pound
Format: Paperback /Ā 176 Pages
Publisher: New Directions; New edition (January 17, 1974)
Language:Ā English
Dimensions:ā 5.2 x 0.5 x 7.9 in