Rodin
Frederic V. Grunfeld(Author)
Oxford Paperbacks (Publisher)
Published on 1. July 1989
Book
Paperback/Softback
751 pages
978-0-19-282612-1 (ISBN)
Description
This biography of Rodin attempts to fill the puzzling gaps in his life and describes in detail the poverty of his youth, his many love affairs, friendships and enmities, his controversial public life, and his lifelong struggle to gain official recognition of his talents and achievements. The author attempts to convey the tone of the modernist era in which Rodin lived. He also makes reference to many of the famous figures who surrounded Rodin after his early successes, such as Goncourt, Zola, Balzac, Gide, Renoir, R.L.Stevenson, Debussy, Oscar Wilde, Gustav Mahler and George Bernard Shaw.
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Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
48 pp b&w illustrations, bibliography, index
ISBN-13
978-0-19-282612-1 (9780192826121)
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Schweitzer Classification
Content
The need to touch; the bust in the attic; a higher class of employer; my savage muse; a lion in the sheepfold; the thaw; Prometheus unbound; a season in hell; Rodin in love; beholde here we sixe; a tempest in the offing; the colossus; 1900; liberation; the Sultan of Meudon; in Rodin's studio; le crepuscule d'un faune.