In the 1950s, Romanian communists tried to pull down Constantin Brancusi’s Endless Column and turn it into scrap metal. First oxen, then tractors were sent to yank down the 30-meter-high column of zinc, brass-clad, cast-iron modules threaded onto a steel spine. They failed but the attempts to raze the iconic sculpture which they considered ‘degenerate’, … Continuă lectura Brancusi’s outdoor sculptures which irked Romanian communists added to Unesco World Heritage list