Acknowledged as one of the major sculptors and avant-garde artists of the twentieth century, Constantin Brancusi (1876 1957) was also one of the most elusive, despite his fame. His mysterious nature was not only due to his upbringing in Romania which, at the time, was still regarded by much of Europe as a backward country haunted by vampires and werewolves but also because Brancusi was aware that myth and an aura of otherness appealed to the public. His self-mythology remained intact until the publication of Brancusi in 1986 by Romanian artists Alexandre Istrati and Natalia...