Rodin Eros & Creativity
Crone,Helmut Salzmann

Now in a flexi edition, this classic exploration of erotic themes in Rodin’s sculptures and drawings offers stunning visual and textual insight into the artist’s work and ideas. Superbly reproduced images of selected sculptures and late drawings by Rodin document his obsession with sexuality, revealing the countless ways he depicted the subject: as a threat and challenge, but also as the source of all creative inspiration and passion. Augmenting these illustrations are essays by leading scholars exploring the ramifications of eros in Rodin’s work and his influence on his contemporaries as well as on future artists. In word and image, this volume deepens our understanding of nineteenth century’s premier sculptorThis work features over 350 images of selected sculptures and late drawings by Rodin, documenting his obsession with sexuality and revealing the countless ways in which he depicted the subject: as a threat and a challenge, but also as a source of all creative inspiration and passion. Augmenting these illustrations are 10 essays by scholars which explore the ramifications of Eros in Rodin's work, including such topics as the nature of the fragment, Rodin's relationship to the model, his religiosity and his influence on his contemporaries as well as on future artists.

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Wydawnictwo: angielskie
Data wydania: b.d
Kategoria: Albumy
ISBN: 978-3-7913-1809-7
Liczba stron: 0