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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the text that can both be accessed online and used to create new print copies. This book and thousands of others can be found in the digital collections of the University of Michigan Library. The University Library also understands and values the utility of print, and makes reprints available through its Scholarly Publishing Office. ... Read more

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This volume is produced from digital images created through the University of Michigan University Library's preservation reformatting program. The Library seeks to preserve the intellectual content of items in a manner that facilitates and promotes a variety of uses. The digital reformatting process results in an electronic version of the text that can both be accessed online and used to create new print copies. This book and thousands of others can be found in the digital collections of the University of Michigan Library. The University Library also understands and values the utility of print, and makes reprints available through its Scholarly Publishing Office. ... Read more

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Much of Auguste Rodin's work defied traditional artistic conventions but out of the public eye, he took a further decisive step towards modernism in a different genre. His erotic female nude studies, created during the final two decades of his life, represent a completely new approach to art - one that freed itself from previous ideals of beauty and from existing concepts of morality. The work was considered to be indecent at the time. When a small collection of the drawings was shown in Weimar, the director of the museum was dismissed. More than 100 of these little-known drawings, taken from museums and private collections worldwide, are brought together in this book for the first time, including the notorious Weimar drawings. In her introductory essay, Anne-Marie Bonnet describes the conditions in which the drawings were created and traces their influence on avant-guarde art in the 20th century, from Duchamp to Yves Klein. ... Read more

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Publisher: London : T. Fisher UnwinPublication date: 1906Subjects: Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes.When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there. ... Read more

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Auguste Rodin's extraordinary watercolors are generally less familiar to the public than his grandiose bronzes which set standards for later generations of sculptors. Yet these studies, executed with apparent ease, are no less significant as works of art--indeed, their enthusiastic naturalism and openness make them almost more timeless and modern than his sculptures. In addition to preliminary watercolor studies for his 3-dimensional works, this section of Rodin's oeuvre includes a large number of erotic silhouettes, some of them quite explicit: cheerful, warm-hearted sketches with which the artist unabashedly papered the walls of his studio. This small volume presents a delightful selection of rarely-exhibited yet enchanting watercolors from the artist's estate, administered by the Musée Rodin in Paris.I invent nothing, I rediscover. --Auguste RodinEdited by Thomas Knubben and Tilman Osterwold.

Essays by Claudie Judrin,Thomas Knubben and Tilman Osterwold.Hardcover, 6.5 x 9.5 in./128 pgs / 57 color and 11 b&w. ... Read more

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Published to accompany an exhibition of sculptures anddrawings by two of history's greatest artists, this book examines the pivotal career of AugusteRodin (1840&endash;1917) and his acknowledged debt to Michelangelo (1475&endash;1564).Texts by prominent scholars discuss Rodin's early departures from the idealized figuresof traditional academic sculpture as well as his 1876 visit to Italy, where for the firsttime he was confronted with the full force of Michelangelo's work. Discussions ofindividual works are accompanied by full-color illustrations. Bibliography. ... Read more

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Excellent book with fine color plates.
This is a welcome addition to the literature on Rodin, but what really distinguishes this book is the quality of reproductions.Particularly noteworthy are the small Michelangelo studies (drawings and especially a great wax figure and a woodcarved Crucifixion) and the Rodin gouache drawings, and his small plaster maquettes.Lastly you can truly see the patinas on the Rodin bronzes.I highly recommend this-- its production values are high.

A great book
I have read a few books about Rodin and Michelangelo( like James S. Ackerman's book )and I really enjoyed this book. It is a solid book, it has full-color images, and I recommend it to any art lover. ... Read more

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Auguste Rodin-the most famous artist in the world at the turn of the twentieth century-led a life as sensational and intense as the great sculptures he created. In this major reinterpretation of Rodin`s life and times, the accomplished Rodin scholar Ruth Butler draws for the first time on closely guarded archives and letters to disentangle the facts of this legendary artist`s life from the many myths that have grown up around him. Lavishly illustrated, the book also provides new interpretations of the motivations, execution, and reception of Rodin`s extraordinary artistic creations. ... Read more

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PERFECT!
It is EXACTLY what I ordered and arrived in a timely fashion.This was my very first Amazon order!Kudos so far. ... Read more

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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. ... Read more