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Rodin
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Influenced by the masters of Antiquity, the genius of Michelangelo and Baroque sculpture, particularly of Bernini, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) is one of the most renowned artists in history. Though Rodin is considered a founder of modern sculpture, he did not set out to critique past classical traditions. Many of his sculptures were criticised and considered controversial because of their sensuality or hyperrealist qualities. His most original works departed from traditional themes of mythology and allegory, and embraced the human body, celebrating individualism and physicality. This book uncovers the life and career of this highly acclaimed artist by exploring his most famous works of art, such as the Gates of Hell, The Thinker and the infamous The Kiss.
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Release dateDec 22, 2011
ISBN9781781606025
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Rainer Maria Rilke

Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) ist der weltweit berühmteste Dichter deutscher Sprache. Seine Werke sind ebenso populär wie schwer zu verstehen - der „Cornet“, das „Stunden-Buch“, die „Neuen Gedichte“, die „Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge“, die „Duineser Elegien“ und „Die Sonette an Orpheus“, ebenso seine Prosaschriften und seine Übersetzungen aus dem Französischen, Italienischen und anderen Sprachen.

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    Rainer Maria Rilke

    Auguste

    Rodin

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    The Sensual Surface

    Fame and Fortune

    Rodin’s Late Drawings

    The Hôtel Biron

    Reactions

    BIOGRAPHY

    LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

    1. The Kiss, 1888-1889.

    Marble, 183.6 x 110.5 x 118.3 cm.

    Musée Rodin, Paris.

    At the principal annual art exhibition, the Salon, in Paris in 1898, the sculptor Auguste Rodin exhibited two enormous statues – The Kiss (p. 4) and Balzac (p. 17). He was fifty eight years old and nearing the height of his fame. It was both a challenging gesture and a typically brave response to professional and private adversity. Originally the embracing couple in The Kiss had been envisaged on a much smaller scale to take their place on a massive pair of doors commissioned from the French government for a projected new museum of decorative art. Rodin had been working on the doors, known as The Gates of Hell (p. 6), for almost twenty years; but by 1898 it had become clear that the museum would not be built. That year, Rodin enlarged the couple massively in marble for the Salon.

    The Balzac sculpture was another failed public monument, initially commissioned by a literary society in 1891 to commemorate the titanic nineteenth-century writer. After seven years of preparatory study, Rodin had decided to exhibit the work to reassure his critics that the project was nearing completion. When the committee responsible for the work saw it at the Salon, roughly cast in plaster, they rejected it and terminated their contract with him.

    Certainly both works, so antithetical in style, discharge conspicuous erotic energies – a

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