BRANCUSI. O BIOGRAFIE, Alexandru Buican, Editura Artemis, Bucuresti, 2007

Foreword Why isn’t there a biography of Brancusi yet? We have asked ourselves this question seventeen years ago and find it as bewildered as it referred to a sculptor of whom it was said: “Next to Shakespeare and Beethoven, there is yet a god: and that is the Romanian Constantin Brancusi”; or “The history of…

Calendarul — obiectiv — arată că de la apariția celei dintâi ediții a acestei cărți au trecut, nici mai mult, nici mai puțin, decât doisprezece ani! (Când, oare, vor fi trecut! și unde am fost eu în tot acest timp?!). Deși, de atunci, au fost mai multe intervenții să retipăresc lucrarea, am declinat aceste invitații,…

Foreword Why isn’t there a biography of Brancusi yet? We have asked ourselves this question seventeen years ago and find it as bewildered as it referred to a sculptor of whom it was said: “Next to Shakespeare and Beethoven, there is yet a god: and that is the Romanian Constantin Brancusi”; or “The history of…

Many people know the myth of Dracula, but very few know that he was in fact a real person, an fifteenth century ruler of the Romanian people. Still, less people realize that the books they read about the subject are mostly the product of the imagination of the authors. In The Impaler: A Biography of…