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 Dumitresco, who made available a small selection of the archive of Brancusi’s correspondence. And in 2003, a comprehensive catalogue, which made the bulk of Brancusi’s private correspondence public for the first time, was published by the Centre Pompidou to accompany a retrospective on Brancusi’s work.

In Constantin Brancusi, Sanda Miller employs these extensive new resources to better assess Brancusi’s life and work in relationship to each other, providing valuable and innovative insights into his relationships with friends, collectors, dealers and lovers. Miller’s perceptive book allows Brancusi to finally take his rightful place among the most important of the intellectual personalities who shaped twentieth-century modernism.

康斯坦丁-布朗库西（Constantin Brancusi，1876-1957）被公认为是二十世纪的主要雕塑家和前卫艺术家之一，尽管他名声在外，但也是最难以捉摸的艺术家之一。他的神秘性不仅是由于他在罗马尼亚的成长经历--在当时，欧洲大部分地区仍然认为罗马尼亚是一个被吸血鬼和狼人困扰的落后国家，而且还因为布兰库西意识到，神话和另类的光环吸引着公众。他的自我神话直到1986年罗马尼亚艺术家Alexandre Istrati和Natalia Dumitresco出版了《Brancusi》，他们提供了Brancusi信件档案中的一小部分。2003年，蓬皮杜中心出版了一本综合目录，首次公开了布兰库西的大部分私人信件，以配合布兰库西的作品回顾展。

在《康斯坦丁-布朗库西》中，桑达-米勒利用这些广泛的新资源，更好地评估了布朗库西的生活和工作之间的关系，为他与朋友、收藏家、经销商和恋人之间的关系提供了宝贵和创新的见解。米勒这本敏锐的书让布兰库西最终在塑造二十世纪现代主义的最重要的知识分子中占据了应有的地位。