Gaudier-Brzeska (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Ezra Pound
- First Published: 1916
- Type of Work: Memoir
- Time of Work: 1912-1916
- Setting: England and France
- Principal Characters: Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Ezra Pound
- Genres: Nonfiction, Memoir
- Subjects: Culture, Twentieth century, Literature, Art or artists, Manners or customs, Social life, London, World War I, Sculpting or sculptors, Biography, Modernization, Avant-garde, Naturalism
Form and Content
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska was a young French sculptor who came to London as a student in 1907. Ezra Pound, an American poet who was to become a central figure in the development of literary modernism, arrived the following year. In 1913, Pound discovered Gaudier-Brzeska’s work at an exhibition and immediately drew the young artist into his avant-garde cultural circles. Gaudier-Brzeska became an important figure in the vorticist movement that Pound launched together with the English painter and writer Wyndham Lewis. Gaudier-Brzeska was killed in June, 1915, in the...
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