The Anti-Historicist Approach: Brancusi, “Our Contemporary”

Abstract

Hal Foster notes that postwar culture in the United States and Western Europe is informed “by neos and posts.” Beginning in the early 1960s, numerous artists have consistently engaged in the recovery of prewar avant-garde practices. Often interfacing diametrically opposed models within a single work, they have thus contrived “an almost Borgesian array of predecessors,” from Marcel Duchamp and Constantin Brancusi to Vladimir Tatlin and Aleksandr Rodchenko.

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Roxana Marcoci

Roxana Marcoci received her Ph.D. from the Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, in 1998. She is a Janice H. Levin Fellow and Curatorial Assistant in the Department of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.