Description: As shown title. We are Australia based and ship immediately. Thank you for shopping with RSABooksellers, an Australia owned company. We take pride in every order and appreciate your confidence in us. We add new stock daily, so please save us to your favourite sellers and check back often. Thank you for your trust in us; we look forward to fulfilling your next book order! DeliveryBooks will be carefully packaged and generally shipped within one business day via Australia Post. Expedited shipping available in the shipping options. The Endless Column Ensemble, by famed Romanian sculptor Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), has been hailed as one of the great works of twentieth-century public art. Commissioned by the National League of Gorj Women to honour the soldiers who had defended the town of Tfrgu Jiu against a German force in 1916, the tripartite ensemble, erected between 1937 and 1938, is composed of the Endless Column, a 30-metre-high column of zinc and brass-clad, cast-iron modules, and two stone monuments: the Gate of the Kiss and Table of Silence. Over the years the elements took their toll on the sculpture, and although the Column s modules had been replated several times since its construction, by the 1990s it was in dire need of conservation. This stunningly llustrated volume celebrates the history of this extraordinary work of art and tells the story of its recent restoration, landscaping and presentation, supported in large part by the World Monuments Fund (WMF). Brancusi s Endless Column Ensemble launches a s
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Publication Year: 2007
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Book Title: Brancusi's Endless Column Ensemble
Item Height: 278mm
Book Series: Architecture
Author: Ernest Beck
Publisher: Scala Publishers Ltd
Topic: Infographics, World Monuments Fund
Item Width: 205mm
Number of Pages: 88 Pages
