Rodin
Eros and Creativity
New York : Prestel, 1997.
Format: Book
Description: 235 pages : illustrations ; 32 cm
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.
Contents:
Trauma of the divine : the critique of convention : fragments in the work of Auguste Rodin and Friedrich Nietzche ; A biological narrative : Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917 ; Views of the sculptural gaze : a visual interpretation / Rainer Crone, David Moos -- Rodin's "Scandalous" drawings / Claudie Jurdin -- Introduction to the essays / Rainer Crone. David Moos -- Innovative energies in the work of Rodin / Siegfried Salzmann -- Rodin : erotic inspiration in nature / Ginger Danto -- Modes and meanings in Rodin's erotic drawings / Kirk Varnedoe -- The scandal of Rodin and his models / Alain Kirili -- Image and idea : Rodin's Album fenaille / Jacques de Caso -- The muse and her gorgon's head : on the problem of individuation in the work of Camille Claudel / Ursula Heiderich.
Subjects:
Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917 -- Catalogs.
Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Erotic art -- France -- Catalogs.
Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917 -- Catalogs.
Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917 -- Criticism and interpretation.
Erotic art -- France -- Catalogs.
ISBN:
3791318098
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
ARTISTS Rodin | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Nonfiction | In |
"Originally published in German on the occasion of the exhibition 'Genius Rodin: Eros und Kreativitat' held at the Kunsthalle Bremen, November 3, 1991 to January 12, 1992 and the Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, January 24 to March 22, 1992"--Title page verso.
Includes bibliographical references (page 229) and index.
Includes bibliographical references (page 229) and index.