Gaudier-Brzeska: Life and Art is the first major study of his life and work. Based on extensive research and incorporating the first catalogue raisonne of his sculpture, it is accompanied by over 100 photographs taken specially for the book by David Finn.
Introduction -- Part one: the life of Gaudier-Brzeska 1891-1915. 1. St. Jean de Braye and Orléans 1891-1907 -- 2. Bristol and Cardiff 1907-09. Nuremberg and Munich 1909 -- 3. Paris 1909-10 -- London 1911-14 -- 5. The breakthrough 1912. Artist of the avant-garde -- 6. War -- 'La Patrie en danger.' Post mortem -- 7. Myths and realities -- Part two: the art of Gaudier-Brzeska. 8. The shaping of the artist -- 9. Gaudier the modeller. Portraits. Polychromy -- 10 'Do you cut ... direct ... in stone? Relief carvings -- 11. The fourth dimension: movement and duration -- 12. 'WE the moderns' -- 13. The Omega Workshops -- 14. Gaudier, Epstein and Brancusi -- 15. Gaudier's Vorticism -- Conclusions -- Photographer's note -- Duotone plates -- Catalogue raissonné of the sculpture -- 'Vortex Gaudier-Brzeska' -- Notes to the text -- Bibliography and exhibitions -- List of illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Index of sculpture -- Index.