{"product_id":"2026200015139-secondhand-savage-messiah-a-biography-of-the-sculptor-henri-gaudier-brzeska","title":"Savage Messiah: A Biography Of The Sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition remarks:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBook: Good\u003cbr\u003eJacket: No dust jacket\u003cbr\u003ePages: Yellowed\u003cbr\u003eCondition remarks: Condition as shown in image\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of the most electrifying artistic lives of the twentieth century belongs to Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, the French-born sculptor who blazed through the London avant-garde like a comet before his death in the trenches of World War I at just twenty-three years old. Savage Messiah chronicles the turbulent life of this prodigious talent — his fierce ambition, his unconventional relationship with the older Polish writer Sophie Brzeska, and his relentless drive to forge a radical new sculptural language in the years before the Great War consumed him.\n\nH.S. Ede constructs this biography with extraordinary intimacy, drawing on letters, diaries, and personal acquaintance to illuminate a personality of volcanic energy and visionary intensity. The work stands as both a monument to a lost genius and a vivid portrait of the Vorticist movement, that brief, brilliant eruption of modernism in pre-war Britain. Ede's prose is tender yet unflinching, capturing the paradox at the heart of Gaudier-Brzeska's story — a man who created art of timeless beauty while living a life of ferocious, almost self-destructive urgency. For anyone captivated by the intersection of genius and tragedy, this remains an essential and haunting testament.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49203197935835,"sku":"2026200015139-SECONDHAND","price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/f4bebdfa-44c5-4553-9a5a-d3fb1908fb47.png?v=1788145429","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/2026200015139-secondhand-savage-messiah-a-biography-of-the-sculptor-henri-gaudier-brzeska","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}