Excellent analysis and description of Brancusi's great public art work, a monument to the Romanian dead of the First World War; compares Rodin's life's aim of making edifying public sculpture and completing very little with Brancusi whose life's work was in developing a very private aesthetic, morally neutral, put at risk this achievement in the realisation of a public monument on a gigantic scale, not attempted by advanced artists of serious pretensions in his time; the Table of Silence, the Gate of the Kiss and the Endless Column a modern masterpiece!

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