"Le Coq, C'est Moi!".

The article focuses on the identity of Constantin Brancusi, a Romanian sculptor who trained initially as a carpenter and stonemason. According to the author, any single interpretation runs the risk of ignoring the complexity of Brancusi's identity. He contends the logic of reducing and locating Brancusi and his work within them. Before Brancusi's time, it appears that the "Dacian" aspect and "Latin" aspects of Romanian culture are inextricably bound and unrecoverable in any essential form. Hence, while the "Pasarea Maiastra" may symbolize Brancusi's reemergence of indigenous culture from the Latinizing influences, the sculpture's own hybrid form perplexes the fixity inherent in such nostalgic reconstructions of identity.