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Art
Danto, Arthur C. | January 22, 1996 issue

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In a defining anecdote of Modernist art, almost too mythically perfect to be historically true, the painter Fernand Léger is reported to have claimed that he, together with Marcel Duchamp and Constantin Brancusi, attended a Salon of Aviation in Paris, France in 1912. It was, oddly, Brancusi who went on to create a work of art, "Bird in Space," that, in 1927, after it became notorious because the U.S. Customs refused to grant it the status of artwork. The essence of flight is the very core of Brancusi's sculptural vision, nowhere more than in the work that made him famous in the eyes of people far from the art world, within which, of course, by 1927, he was very widely acclaimed.

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ART, Modern; BRANCUSI, Constantin; BIRDS in art; FLIGHT; ARTISTS; PAINTING; SCULPTURE
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