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the year dot
2021
a portrait of the artist (animation)
Constantin Brancusi’s portrait of James Joyce was a spiral. Early in A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man, the narrator inscribes his desk:
“Stephen Dedalus
Class of Elements
Clongowes Wood College
Sallins
County Kildare
Ireland
Europe
The World
The Universe “
brancusi portrait of joyce, 1929
Joyce’s father being shown the Brancusi portrait, remarked: ” O, my son has changed quite a bit since I have last seen him.”