Auguste Rodin

Author: Rainer Maria Rilke
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 92

Book Description
Rodin has pronounced Rilke's essay the supreme interpretation of his work. A few years ago the sculptor expressed to the translators the wish that some day the book might be placed before the English-speaking public. The appreciation was published originally as one of a series of Art Monographs under the editorship of the late Richard Muther. To estimate and interpret the work of an artist is to be creatively just to him. For this reason there are fewer critics than there are artists, and criticism with but few exceptions is almost invariably negligible and futile.

Rodin on Art and Artists

Author: Auguste Rodin
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486156788
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 129

Book Description
In an intimate talk with his protégé, the sculptor offers candid, wide-ranging comments on the meaning of art; other famed artists; the relation of sculpture to poetry, painting, and music; more. 76 illustrations.

Rodin

Author: Raphaël Masson
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 2080202391
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
This definitive monograph from the Musée Rodin in Paris on the pioneering artist who paved the way for modern sculpture is now available in an affordable compact format. Revered today as the greatest sculptor of all time, whose expressive style prefigured that of the modernist movement and abstract sculpture, Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) stirred up much controversy during his lifetime, and his sculptures often met with hostility and incomprehension from his peers. This monograph traces the life and work of the artist, from his youth and early poverty-stricken years of apprenticeship to his most celebrated works—The Kiss, The Thinker, The Gates of Hell—which have become veritable icons; and from his passionate and tumultuous relationship with Camille Claudel to his extraordinary studio, working methods, and sources of inspiration, and his final years marked by war and illness. Written by experts from the Musée Rodin in Paris, this richly illustrated volume includes drawings, watercolors, engravings, and archival documents, as well as specially commissioned photographs of Rodin’s sculptures, completed by a chronology, bibliography, and history of the Musée Rodin—housed in the artist’s former studio in the Hôtel Biron. Providing insight into the many facets of his creative genius, this new compact edition of the Musée Rodin’s definitive reference on the artist and his oeuvre coincides with museum’s reopening in September 2015.

The Cathedral Is Dying

Author: Auguste Rodin
Publisher: David Zwirner Books
ISBN: 9781644230466
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Master sculptor Auguste Rodin’s illuminating writings on cathedrals in France are especially relevant and significant following the recent fire at Notre Dame. In this volume, the writer and Rodin scholar Rachel Corbett selects excerpts from the famous sculptor’s book Cathedrals of France, first published in 1914, just before the outbreak of World War I. Cathedrals were central to the way Rodin thought about his art: he saw them as visual metaphors for the human figure, among the finest examples of craftsmanship known to modern man, and as a model for how to live and work—slowly, brick by brick. Here, Corbett takes the fire at Notre Dame and the concerns over its restoration as an entry point in an exploration of Rodin's cathedrals. Rodin adamantly opposed restoration, as he felt it often did more damage than the original injury. (Many of the cathedrals that Rodin looks at in his texts were, in fact, bombed during the war.) But while he rails against various restoration efforts as evidence that “we are letting our cathedrals die,” the book, with its tenderly rendered sketches and written portraits, is itself an attempt to preserve these cathedrals. The selection of texts in this volume is a reminder—as is the tragedy of Notre Dame—of why we ought to appreciate these feats of architecture, whether or not they are still standing today.

The Art of Rodin

Author: Louis Weinberg
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sculpture, French
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description

The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin at the Legion of Honor

Author: Legion of Honor (San Francisco, Calif.)
Publisher: Prestel
ISBN: 9783791356334
Category : Sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Exploring the full range of the work of French artist Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), this book also reveals the deep significance of Rodin's oeuvre to the history of the Legion of Honor in San Francisco, which holds one of the finest collections of Rodin sculpture in the United States. The publication contains examples from his early days as a struggling artist to his mature and most successful works. The majority of the bronzes are lifetime casts by the sculptor, making this collection a rare and significant body of Rodin's output. A related group of plaster models and fragments augment these major pieces, adding to the scope and breadth of this volume. Showcasing beautiful new photography of more than fifty of Rodin's most iconic artworks alongside an illuminating essay, this book will delight and surprise readers with its novel insights into one of the greatest sculptors in art history. Exhibition: Legion of Honor, San Francisco, USA (28.01. - 10.12.2017).

The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin

Author: Auguste Rodin
Publisher: [Philadelphia] : Philadelphia Museum of Art
ISBN:
Category : Sculptors
Languages : en
Pages : 670

Book Description

You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin

Author: Rachel Corbett
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 0393245063
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
Winner of the 2016 Marfield Prize In 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke—then a struggling poet in Germany—went to Paris to research and write a short book about the sculptor Auguste Rodin. The two were almost polar opposites: Rilke in his twenties, delicate and unknown; Rodin in his sixties, carnal and revered. Yet they fell into an instantaneous friendship. Transporting readers to early twentieth-century Paris, Rachel Corbett’s You Must Change Your Life is a vibrant portrait of Rilke and Rodin and their circle, revealing how deeply Rodin’s ideas about art and creativity influenced Rilke’s classic Letters to a Young Poet.

Rodin

Author: Auguste Rodin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Sculpture
Languages : en
Pages : 150

Book Description

Rodin

Author: Ruth Butler
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300064988
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 612

Book Description
Biografi om den franske billedhugger, der levede 1840-1917