Rainer Maria Rilke

Auguste Rodin

Artist Auguste Rodin was fortunate to have for secretary Rainer Maria Rilke, one of the most sensitive poets of the early 20th century. This essay discussing Rodin's work as an artist is as revealing of Rilke as it is of its subject. Written in 1903, Rilke's meditation marks the entry of the poet into the world of letters. With an introduction by William Gass and photography of Rodin's work.

Düsünce Kivilcimlari; Cehennem Kapisi'na Dogru

This classic exploration of erotic themes in Rodin's sculptures and drawings offers stunning visual and textual insight into the artist's work and ideas. More than 350 superbly reproduced images of selected sculptures and late drawings by Rodin document his obsession with sexuality, revealing the countless ways he depicted the subject: as a threat and challenge, but also as the source of all creative inspiration and passion. Augmenting these illustrations, ten essays by leading scholars explore the ramifications of Eros in Rodin's work, including such topics as the nature of the fragment, Rodin's relationship to the model, his religiosity, and his influence on his contemporaries as well as on future artists. In word and image, this volume deepens our understanding of the nineteenth century's premier sculptor.

Eros and Creativity

Rodin

Piet Thomas

Bert Schreurs

Keuze uit het werk van de Duitse dichter (1875-1926) met vertaling en geïllustreerd met aquarellen van Auguste Rodin.

De mooisten gedichten

"Les grands artistes procèdent comme la nature compose, et non pas comme l'anatomie décrit. Ils ne sculptent pas tel muscle, tel nerf, tel os pour lui-même ; c'est l'ensemble qu'ils visent et qu'ils expriment ; c'est par larges plans que leur oeuvre vibre dans la lumière ou entre dans l'ombre."

Images of Desire, Erotic Watercolors and Cut-outs

Minneapolis Institute of Arts, June 15-August 1 ... [et Al.].

Catherine Lampert

Eleanor Harz Jorden

Arts Council of Great Britain (Londres, Royaume-Uni).

Rosalie Cass

August Rodin was one of the foremost sculptors of the modern age, influencing every sculptor who came after him. This handsome book by Catherine Lampert offers new insights into the creative processes of this great French artist.

Sculpture & Drawings

Sculpture

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 on Art and Artists

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 Cathedral Is Dying

Henri Matisse

Musée Matisse

Musée Rodin (Paris)

La rencontre de celui qui domine la sculpture par sa monumentalité et de celui qui règne sur le dessin par le graphisme et la couleur révèle leur intérêt croisé pour une expression artistique autre que celle pour laquelle ils sont reconnus : le sculpteur Rodin dessine, le peintre Matisse sculpte.

Matisse-Rodin

Ernst-Gerhard Guse

Guse

Examines all phases of the artist's career, ranging from early academic studies to the extraordinary works of his final years

Auguste Rodin

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