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Radio 3,16 Jun 2009,15 mins

SeriesAntony Gormley's Seminal Sculpture

Brancusi's Endless Column

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Artist Antony Gormley explores key sculptures of the 20th century. He discusses Brancusi's Endless Column, a 100-foot column, commissioned as a war memorial and situated above the small town of Targu Giu in Romania. He considers it to be the first Minimalist work.

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