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Following a short and turbulent life in France, Germany and Britain, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska was killed in the trenches at the age of 23. A protege of Ezra Pound and a fellow champion of Vorticism, he was a member of the legendary pre-war London circle that included Wyndham Lewis, Jacob Epstein and Roger Fry.

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CHOICE Review

Certain artists who were not only prolific but instrumental and often revolutionary in fostering a particular movement or style actually died at a young age, frequently in wars. While WW I cannot claim exclusivity here, many significant avant-garde artists had their promising lives cut short, frequently in its trenches, some of the best-known being the painters Franz Marc (1882-1916) and August Macke (1887-1914) in Germany, the sculptor Umberto Boccioni (1882-1916) in Italy, the sculptor Raymond Duchamp-Villon (1876-1918) and the poet and critic Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) in France, and the philosopher and critic T. E. Hulme (1883-1917) and, the youngest of these, the sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915) in Britain. Silber, perhaps best known for her work on the British sculptor Sir Jacob Epstein, has written a superb book. It is the first major study of Gaudier-Brzeska's life and art; it also sheds new light on the politics and problems of British Modernism. Moreover, it includes a splendid catalogue raisonne of the artist's more than 100 sculptures. The catalogue is accompanied by 168 mostly full-page images, 16 of which are in color, taken by the incomparable David Finn. The substantial introductory text on the artist's life and art is accompanied by 111 relatively small black-and-white historical and comparative images. Excellent sections devoted to notes to the text, exhibitions, list of illustrations, index of sculpture, and general index. Well produced and reasonably priced, highly recommended for all collections of modern art. J. Weidman Oberlin College