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HENRI GAUDIER-BRZESKA: “SAVAGE MESSIAH” OF ENGLISH AVANT-GARDE

Aleksandr Olegovich Kotlomanov
Saint Petersburg State Art and Industry Academy named after Alexander von Stieglitz


Submitted: December 4, 2013
Abstract. The article is devoted to the outstanding figure of the English avant-garde origin period – the sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska. The range of issues is considered connected with the artist’s role in London creative environment of the 1910s, his aspirations originality, their influence on the further evolution of the English sculpture. The fragments of Gaudier’s contemporaries’ reminiscences and his own texts for the first time translated into the Russian language and recreating the complex picture of modernist movement genesis in the English artistic culture are presented. The author comes to the conclusion that Gaudier-Brzeska’s avant-garde ideas got their genuine development in the creativity of the next generation of the British sculptors.
Key words and phrases:
Анри Годье-Бжеска
Джекоб Эпстайн
Эзра Паунд
Генри Мур
Барбара Хепуорт
современная скульптура
британская скульптура
английская скульптура
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska
Jacob Epstein
Ezra Pound
Henry Moore
Barbara Hepworth
modern sculpture
British sculpture
English sculpture
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