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Auguste Rodin : drawings & watercolours / Antoinette Le Normand-Romain and Christina Buley-Uribe.

By: Contributor(s): Language: English Original language: French Publisher: London : Thames & Hudson, 2006Description: 439 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780500238356
  • 0500238359
Uniform titles:
  • Auguste Rodin, dessins et aquarelles. English
Subject(s):
Contents:
The idea behind my works / Auguste Rodin -- Rodin's drawings : 1854-1880 / J. Kirk T. Varnedoe -- The gates of Hell / Claudie Judrin -- Rodin's drawings of architecture / Elisabeth Chase Geissbuhler -- Rodin's drawings of the nineties : the transition period / Ernst-Gerhard Güse -- Rodin's late drawings and watercolors / J.A. Schmoll gen. Eisenwerth -- The dancers of King Sisowath of Cambodia / Auguste Rodin -- The dance gesture in essence / Rainer Maria Rilke.
Summary: Best known as a sculptor, this book looks at Auguste Rodin's graphic output, reproducing over 350 of the most beautiful pieces from the collection of the Musée Rodin and the most important international collections.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-352) and index.

The idea behind my works / Auguste Rodin -- Rodin's drawings : 1854-1880 / J. Kirk T. Varnedoe -- The gates of Hell / Claudie Judrin -- Rodin's drawings of architecture / Elisabeth Chase Geissbuhler -- Rodin's drawings of the nineties : the transition period / Ernst-Gerhard Güse -- Rodin's late drawings and watercolors / J.A. Schmoll gen. Eisenwerth -- The dancers of King Sisowath of Cambodia / Auguste Rodin -- The dance gesture in essence / Rainer Maria Rilke.

Best known as a sculptor, this book looks at Auguste Rodin's graphic output, reproducing over 350 of the most beautiful pieces from the collection of the Musée Rodin and the most important international collections.

Translated from the German, Auguste Rodin, Zeichnungen und Aquarelle, by John Gabriel and Michael Taylor (text by Claudie Jurdin).