O ISTORIOGRAFIE A OPEREI BRÂNCUȘIENE. MASA TĂCERII: LECTURI PARALELE, SENSURI ADIACENTE
AN HISTORIOGRAPHY OF BRÂNCUȘI՚OPERA. THE TABLE OF SILENCE: PARALLEL READINGS, ADJACENT MEANINGS

Summary/Abstract: This paper has a recapitulative character, thus far from normative. However, a research with a historiographic dominance cannot possibly point out accurately Constantin Brâncuși’s representations about his own work; nor can it reveal a historicity of the view that the taciturn artist may have suggested, at least in conversation with his close friends. The author merely highlights the ways in which exegetes translated Brâncuși’s sculptures into the language of highly varied cultural codes, either autochthonous or exotic. How many more reinterpretations can The Table of Silence bear? Sometimes, specialists have formulated their interpretations in an acceptable manner. Other times, though, they went too far (i.e., by inventing a little plausible aesthetics of Brâncuși)

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