Seeing Brancusi's First Cry, A First Time, Again

• Published in: Janus head Vol. 20; no. 1; pp. 33 - 40
• Main Author: Miller, Ellen
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022

Constantin Brancusi’s sculpture The First Cry (c. 1914; cast 1917) asks questions that overlap with the concerns of contemporary existential phenomenology, namely, temporality, the relation between art and truth, the nature of embodiment, and the lived experience of perception. In this paper, I put...