Ezra Pound\'s book on the French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska was first published in 1916.
And he wrote and sent packages to him in the trenches, where Gaudier a sculptor to the last carved a madonna and child from the butt of a captured German rifle, just two days before he died.".
Pound arranged exhibitions and for the publication of Gaudier\'s manifestoes in Blast and The Egoist.
They were living in poverty when Pound bought Gaudier the stone from which the famous "hieratic head" of the poet was made. whose name he added to his own.
Pound knew Gaudier in London, where the young artist had come with his companion, the Polish-born Sophie Brzeska.
Would there today be a Salle Gaudier-Brzeska in the Musee de L\'Art Moderne in Paris if Pound had not championed him? Gaudier\'s talent was impressive and his Vorticist aesthetic important as theory, but he was killed in World War I at the age of twenty-three, leaving only a small body of work.
The Memoir is valuable both for the history of modern art and for what it shows us of Pound himself, his ability to recognize genius in others and then to publicize it effectively.
An enlarged edition, including thirty pages of illustrations (sculpture and drawings) as well as Pound\'s later pieces on Gaudier, was brought out in 1970, and is now re-issued as an ND Paperbook.
Ezra Pound\'s book on the French sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska was first published in 1916
