Rodin : the shape of genius

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Rodin : the shape of genius

Ruth Butler

Yale University Press, c1993

  • : pbk

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [559]-566) and index

内容説明・目次

巻冊次

ISBN 9780300054002

内容説明

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was arguably the most famous sculptor in the world in 1900 - a time when painting and painters excelled. How he reached such heights at the age of 60, and what happened when he did, are important questions that have not been closely considered in previous works of biography. In this reinterpretation of Rodin's life and times, the author draws for on closely guarded archives and family letters to disentangle the facts of his life from the myths that have grown up around them. Butler had exclusive access to a voluminous archive of unpublished letters written to Rodin by the most important people in his life - his son, his lover, Emile Zola, Claude Monet and George Bernard Shaw, amongst many others. The result is a richly textured account of the artist and his world, Paris's Left Bank at the turn of the century, in which Rodin's life is placed firmly in a historical and political context and one in which the author considers the meaning of his life, his work and his relationships.

目次

  • A Parisian family 1860
  • Maria's vow
  • brother Auguste
  • independent man
  • a sculptor's assistant
  • Brussels and working in a partnership
  • outside the partnership
  • Michelangelo
  • "The Vanquished One"
  • the Paris salon
  • the republic needs monuments
  • why was Rodin commissioned to make "The Door"?
  • silence and creativity
  • genius in the faces of a man
  • the women in Rodin's life
  • the burghers of Calais - 1884-1889
  • how the door of the museum of decorative arts became "The Gates of Hell"
  • in the company of a "Woman of Genius" monuments to genius, I - Bastien-Lepage, Claude Lorain and Victor Hugo
  • monuments to genius, II - the inauguration of Claude Lorain and Baudelaire's tomb
  • ateliers and assistants
  • the passion of Camille Claudel
  • the societe des gens de lettres
  • learning to say - "It is Finished"
  • victory and defeat - the Victor Hugo and the Balzac monument
  • 1899 - becoming a entrepreneur
  • 1900 - outsider's victory
  • the home of the sculptor
  • lionizing Edward's court
  • teaching Americans about sculpture
  • Rodin's reputation in France
  • sexual imperatives
  • new wife and a home in the city
  • reckonings
  • the gift.
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780300064988

内容説明

This reinterpretation of Rodin's life and times draws on archives and letters to disentangle the facts of this artist's life from the many myths that have grown up around him. The book provides new interpretations of the motivations, execution and reception of Rodin's artistic creations.

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