Rodin

Rodin
ISBN-10
0712620591
ISBN-13
9780712620598
Series
Rodin
Category
Art / Sculpture & Installation
Pages
160
Language
English
Published
1990
Publisher
Barrie & Jenkins
Author
Monique Laurent

Description

When Auguste Rodin died in 1917, there was an extraordinary outburst of sentiment throughout the world, comparable with the death of great statesmen like de Gaulle or Churchill. He had become a national and an international hero. Born in Paris in 1840, in relatively humble circumstances, he achieved greatness through the exercise, over long life, of a prodigious talent. As an exact contemporary of Claude Monet, he inhabited the world of the Impressionists. But he followed a different path, combining his pursuit of the ideals of classical sculpture with an astonishingly sensuous individualism.

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