Author:
Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917, artist.
ImprintLondon : Thames & Hudson : The British Museum, [2018]
Imprint2018.
Description240 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits ; 29 cm
Note:Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name held at the British Museum, April 26-July 29, 2018.
Note:"Organized with the Musée Rodin, Paris."
Note:Introduction / Hartwig Fischer -- The French romance for Greek marbles / Celeste Farge and Ian Jenkins -- 'My dream as a sculptor' - The thousand parthenons of Auguste Rodin / Bénédicte Garnier -- The British Museum : A temple of the muses -- Rodin's Parthenon -- Art and nature -- The monument -- Emotion -- Motion -- Chronology of Auguste Rodin.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-227) and indexes.
Note:Rodin, famous for 'The thinker' and 'The kiss', was captivated by the sculptures of Classical antiquity and he constantly reworked and assimilated the forms of ancient Greek and Roman art in his own work. Rodin visited the British Museum for the first time in the summer of 1881 and there greatly admired the sculptures of the Parthenon. Before he saw the originals, he was already acquainted with plaster casts of them displayed in the École des Beaux-Arts, Paris. The Parthenon sculptures continued to be a major influence on his own work and he visited them frequently on his return visits to London. He also amassed a huge collection of fragments of ancient sculpture that served as a source of inspiration.
