Balas, Edith: Brancusi & Romanian Folk Traditions

EDITH BALAS has been Professor of Art History at Carnegie Mellon University for the past twenty-eight years, as well as Research Associate at the University of Pittsburgh. In addition to more than twenty articles in American and European journals, her publications include Brancusi and the Romanian Folk Tradition (East European Monographs, 1987; also available in Romanian translation), Michelangelo's Medici Chapel: A New Interpretation (American Philosophical Society, 1995), Joseph Csáky, a Pioneer of Modern Sculpture (American Philosophical Society, 1998), The Holocaust in the Painting of Valentin Lustig (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002), The Mother Goddess in Italian Renaissance Art (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2002), The Early Work of Henry Koerner (Frick Art & Historical Center, 2003), and Brâncusi és Brancusi (with Passuth Krisztina, Noran, Budapest, 2005). Dr. Balas has curated a number of exhibitions at the University of Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University, Duquesne University, the Frick Art & Historical Center, the Institut Hongrois de Paris, and the Ernst Muzeum Budapest.