Authors: Antoinette Le Normand-Romain. Christina Buley-Uribe.
Hardcover, 440 pages
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication Date: 2007-04-09


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    "I have drawn all my life. I began withdrawing: I have never stopped drawing."—Auguste Rodin

From the "black" drawings contemporaneous with the Gates of Hell to his great watercolor nudes, this book reproduces hundreds of Auguste Rodin's most beautiful graphic works held in the collection of the Musée Rodin, a number of which are published here for the first time. The accompanying essays analyze the complex relationships between Rodin's drawings and his sculptures, the problems of attribution, and the role of sensuality in his work.

Rodin's rich graphic oeuvre has until now been a little-known aspect of his art, yet it is crucial to a full understanding of his work. This book will be essential reading for anyone interested in the great sculptor's achievements. 372 illustrations in color and black and white....

Authors: Ruth Butler.
Paperback, 608 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Date: 1996-02-21


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    This reinterpretation of Rodin's life and times draws on archives and letters to disentangle the facts of this artist's life from the many myths that have grown up around him. The book provides new interpretations of the motivations, execution and reception of Rodin's artistic creations....

Authors: Rainer Maria Rilke.
Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Pallas Athene
Publication Date: 2007-06-15
Edition: Reprint

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Authors: Gilles Neret.
Paperback, 96 pages
Publisher: Benedikt Taschen Verlag
Publication Date: 1999-01-01

Authors: Auguste Rodin.
Paperback, 159 pages
Publisher: Schirmer/Mosel
Publication Date: 2005-09-30


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    With his erotic nude studies Auguste Rodin completed the artistic step towards modernity during the last two decades of his life. To a greater extent than in his sculptural œuvre he broke with art traditions in his pencil drawings, watercolors and drawings combined with scissor cuts, establishing his total independence of prevalent beauty ideals and morals. The intimate character is born out by the expeditious stroke, comparable to instantaneous snapshots, and the liberality of the motifs. Contemporaries such as Rilke and Paul Klee immediately recognized the revolutionary artistic quality of the drawings. The price Harry Graf Kessler had to pay for exhibiting them in Weimar 1906 was high, however: he was dismissed from his position as head of the Grand-Ducal museum. This book, a softcover reprint of our 1995 classic, contains 105 watercolors and scissor cuts collected from museums and private collections from all over the world, including some "scandal" drawings from Weimar....

Authors: Catherine Lampert.
Paperback, 242 pages
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication Date: 1987-09-10


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    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....

Authors: Josephine Gabler. Claude Keisch. Dieter Koepplin. Helene Pinet. Pamela Kort. Joseph Beuys. Auguste Rodin.
Hardcover, 368 pages
Publisher: Richter Verlag
Publication Date: 2006-03-01
Edition: Bilingual

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    Between 1947 and 1964 Joseph Beuys produced a swath of works on paper that, in their style, technique, and formal vocabulary, echo those of Auguste Rodin by way of his teacher and mentor, sculptor, Wilhelm Lehmbruck. Although Beuysís work remains very different from his predecessorsí, it does take up themes they had pursued, including the idea of the torso as an autonomous, enclosed form and of the fragment as the simplest and most elementary embodiment of immutability. This book sets Beuysís works on paper and sculptures opposite the works on paper and sculptures of Rodin and Lehmbruck, and finds both striking affinities and autonomy....

Authors: Auguste Rodin.
Hardcover, 63 pages
Publisher: Prestel Publishing
Publication Date: 2006-03-30
Edition: Bilingual

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    Auguste Rodin: Erotic Sketchbook

Norbert Wolf

Designed to imitate an artist’s sketchbook, this exquisite collection of Auguste Rodin’s nude drawings is a sensuous celebration of his work.

One of the world’s most revered sculptors, Rodin spent much of his late career sketching nudes in his studio. At the time these intimate studies were considered obscene and their first public exhibition resulted in scandal. Today Rodin’s erotic work is appreciated for its great expressive power, confidence of line, and delicate colors. This collection of more than thirty color drawings offers readers the unique experience of peering over the artist’s shoulder as he works. The stunning reproductions, embossed cover and ribbon tie make this a perfect gift for lovers of art and lovers everywhere.

Norbert Wolf is an art historian and the author of Gustav Klimt: Erotic Sketchbook, Egon Schiele: Erotic Sketchbook, and The World of Saints (all by Prestel)....

Authors: Jennifer Gough-Cooper. Geoff Dyer.
Hardcover, 128 pages
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Publication Date: 2006-10-30


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    A mesmerizing collection of photographs of Rodin's sculpture, taken at the Musée Rodin and at the Musée du Luxembourg, Paris.

It was a chance visit to the Musée Rodin nearly ten years ago that sparked Jennifer Gough-Cooper's renewed interest in photography, and the exceptional results will be exhibited at the museum this autumn. Her photographs of such works as The Kiss and Adam and Eve reveal the beauty of the stone, the light from the grand eighteenth-century windows, and the movement of the visitors in the room, to create soft Impressionist forms with a wonderful painterly quality.

A thought-provoking text by Geoff Dyer makes us realize how photographs of sculpture can reveal qualities in these works of art that are often not immediately apparent. As he writes, the photographs enable us to gaze on Rodin's sculpture "with the same intensity and absorption that he regarded—in very different ways—the men and women who modeled for him. What Gough-Cooper has photographed is nothing less than the awakening of stone, stone awakening to the camera's touch." 73 color illustrations....

Authors: Auguste Rodin. Antoinette Le Normand-Romain.
Paperback, 168 pages
Publisher: National Gallery of Australia
Publication Date: 2002-07


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    Rodin was considered the most famous sculptor of his time, not only in France but throughout Europe, America, and Australia. The expressive liberty and emotional intensity of Rodinís figures had an enormous impact on the culture and the art of the entire twentieth century. This compact book illustrates a significant group of works which represent Rodinís entire artistic career: sculptures, drawings, and watercolors, as well as contemporary photographs.

The selection of sculpture is supplemented by outstanding drawings made by Rodin around 1900, at the height of his career. The presentation of these exciting works on paper along with the sculptures gives insight into Rodinís working process. They also reveal a more intense and less dramatic side of his genius.

The book includes contributions by J–rg Zutter, Antoinette Le Normand-Romain, Claudie Judrin, Jaynie Anderson, and Paul Paffen....