Talk:The Kiss (Brâncuși sculpture)

Copyright investigation
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Sculpture for the blind
Brâncuși was known to have said: "There are idiots who define my work as abstract; yet what they call abstract is what is most realistic. What is real is not the appearance, but the idea, the essence of things." One of the reasons he made a sculpture called Sculpture for the Blind also in the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This sculpture is meant to be touched. Brâncuși said of The Kiss, that it was a sculpture for the blind, to be experienced (by touch for example) rather than to be looked at. Ironically the sculpture in Philadelphia is in a glass case and the ornament in the Montparnasse Cemetery ( which is under constant video surveillance) may not be touched. What I find interesting is that Sculpture for the Blind does not seem to be mentioned in Wikipedia. JHvW 06:29, 1 September 2017 (UTC)