Rodin - Rilegato

Le Normand-Romain, Antoinette

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ISBN 10: 0789212072 ISBN 13: 9780789212078

Casa editrice: Abbeville Pr, 2014

Riassunto

Essential for every art lover the definitive new book on Rodin's life and work.

With more than 350 pictures, many never before seen, Rodin reveals, in great beauty and detail, the genius of the man known as the father of modern sculpture. The stories of Rodin's sculptures, well known for their sense of fluidity and movement, are told through each stage of development from paster casts to the glorious end result.

A world-renowned expert in Rodin’s work and a former curator at the Musée Rodin, Antoinette Le Normand-Romain enjoyed unprecedented access to Rodin’s archives and the museum’s collection in preparing this absorbing new study of the artist's life and works. She details the evolution of Rodin’s artistic vision: from the frustration of his early career he was denied entrance to the École des Beaux Arts three times to his first critical triumph with The Burghers of Calais to the twenty years he spent working on The Gates of Hell. Rodin also includes reproductions of the artist's numerous sketches, emphasizing his ability to capture human movement in two or three strokes of the pen and translate his sketches into final pieces that highlight the unique character of his subjects through their physicality.

This new perspective on Rodin’s oeuvre is accompanied by photographs that capture the astonishing details of his works, often in full- and double-page spreads. The photography undertaken for the book showcases the well known like The Kiss and The Thinker and little seen treasures, including many of the artist's plaster models and studies. Images of works in different stages of composition, and of the same work in different versions, provide an intimate look at Rodin's artistic process. With these splendid illustrations accompanying Le Normand-Romain’s insightful text, Rodin is the new authority on one of the world's greatest artists.

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Recensione:

"Le Normand-Romain, former curator of the Musée d’Orsay and Musée Rodin, offers a large-format, lushly illustrated book worthy of its subject...The pairing of scholarship and imagery in this major work makes it a definitive resource, of interest to both researchers and art enthusiasts." Booklist

"Le Normand-Romain has the credentials to create a definitive study...This truly comprehensive book, boasting 350 illustrations, would appeal to postsecondary students and sophisticated readers interested in European art." Library Journal

A wealth of eye-witness accounts and . . . short, well-paced chapters combine enlightening knowledge and a feel for narrative not often found in this type of book.” Télérama

L'autore:

Antoinette Le Normand-Romain has been Director General of the National Institute of the History of Art in Paris since 2006. She specializes in French sculpture of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including the work of Rodin and his partner Camille Claudel. Le Normand-Romain was a sculpture curator at the Musée d'Orsay and for twelve years at the Musée Rodin, where she undertook a new catalog of the collection.

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• Editore: Abbeville Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0789212072
• ISBN 13: 9780789212078
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 431