The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin at the Legion of Honor

2017
The Sculpture of Auguste Rodin at the Legion of Honor
Author: Legion of Honor (San Francisco, Calif.)
Publisher: Prestel
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Sculpture
ISBN: 9783791356334
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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).

Auguste Rodin

1905
Auguste Rodin
Author: Camille Mauclair
Publisher:
Total Pages: 244
Release: 1905
Genre: Sculpture
ISBN:
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You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin

2016-09-06
You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin
Author: Rachel Corbett
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2016-09-06
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0393245063
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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: The Man and His Art, with Leaves from His Note-book

2019-12-18
Rodin: The Man and His Art, with Leaves from His Note-book
Author: Judith Cladel
Publisher: Good Press
Total Pages: 278
Release: 2019-12-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:
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This book is a biography of François Auguste René Rodin, a French sculptor, who is generally considered the founder of modern sculpture. He was schooled traditionally and took a craftsman-like approach to his work. Rodin possessed a unique ability to model a complex, turbulent, and deeply pocketed surface in clay. He is known for such sculptures as The Thinker, Monument to Balzac, The Kiss, The Burghers of Calais, and The Gates of Hell.

Rodin and America

2011
Rodin and America
Author: Bernard Barryte
Publisher: Silvana Editoriale
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9788836620005
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Presents essays and color reproductions that offer insights into the late French sculptor's impact on American sculptors and art.

Rodin / Arp

2021-03-09
Rodin / Arp
Author: Raphaël Bouvier
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2021-03-09
Genre:
ISBN: 9783775748759
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Affinities and contrasts in the work of two icons of modern sculpture In terms of modern sculpture, there are few artists who can claim the same level of influence as Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) and Hans "Jean" Arp (1886-1966). Rodin's naturalistic rather than decorative approach to sculpture revolutionized the field in the late 19th century, while Arp prompted another wave of experimentation in the early 1900s with his abstract sculpture. In this volume, the oeuvres of both pioneers are placed in conversation with one another to demonstrate their artistic affinities as well as their creative contrasts. As Rodin moved away from the preeminent trends of mythological allegory in order to focus on the organic elegance of the human figure, he eventually approached an Impressionistic style. Arp, as an early member of the Dadaist movement, reinterpreted many of the trends brought forth by Rodin, emphasizing abstraction as a means for conveying pathos. This publication allows readers to appreciate the evolution of both artists individually and in the context of art history as a whole: as sculptural milestones, the creations of Rodin and Arp provide a vivid illustration of fundamental developments in modern sculpture stylistically and ideologically. Curator Raphaël Bouvier provides textual insight along with several other acclaimed art scholars, including Catherine Chevillot, Director of the Musée Rodin.

Rodin

1969
Rodin
Author: Auguste Rodin
Publisher:
Total Pages: 150
Release: 1969
Genre: Sculpture
ISBN:
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Big Alma

2015
Big Alma
Author: Bernice Scharlach
Publisher: Heyday Books
Total Pages: 383
Release: 2015
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781597143240
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This is a revised and revamped reprint of a biography of Alma Spreckels who was a larger-than-life, turn of the century character . At home among the wealthiest and most powerful people in California and in Europe she moved within cultural circles on both continents, always living by her own rules. At six feet tall she was an imposing presence but her lifestyle kept her out of the inner circle of San Francisco society. She discovered Rodins sculptures in Paris and made them the centerpiece of her new museum, The California Palace of the Legion of Honor and in Union Square today a column rises with a female figure dancing at the top (Alma). both signature gifts to the City,

Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition

2021-11-30
Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition
Author: Natalie Dupêcher
Publisher:
Total Pages: 184
Release: 2021-11-30
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781633451292
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Over the course of her protean career, Meret Oppenheim produced witty, unconventional bodies of work that defy neat categorizations of medium, style and subject matter. ?Nobody will give you freedom,? she stated in 1975, ?you have to take it.? Her freewheeling, subversively humorous approach modeled a dynamic artistic practice in constant flux, yet held together by the singularity and force of her creative vision.0Published in conjunction with the first ever major transatlantic Meret Oppenheim retrospective, and the first in the United States in over 25 years, this publication surveys work from the radically open Swiss artist?s precocious debut in 1930s Paris, the period during which her notorious fur-lined Object in MoMA?s collection was made, through her post?World War II artistic development, which included engagements with international Pop, Nouveau Réalisme and Conceptual art, and up to her death in 1985. Essays by curators from the Kunstmuseum Bern, the Menil Collection and the Museum of Modern Art critically examine the artist?s wide-ranging, wildly imaginative body of work, and her active role in shaping the narrative of her life and art, providing the context for her creative production pre? and post?World War II.00Exhibition: Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland (22.10.2021-30.01.2022) / The Menil Collection, Houston, USA (11.03-07.08.2022) / The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (02.10.2022-05.02.2023).