Dec 24, 2009

Gaudier-Brzeska | Gaudier-Brzeska

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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

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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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Gaudier-Brzeska | Gaudier-Brzeska

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