Rodin: The Man and His Art, with Leaves from His Note-book
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Of Auguste Rodin one thing may be said without fear of contradiction: among his contemporaries to-day he is preëminently the master. Born at Paris, 1840,—the natal year of his friends, Claude Monet and Zola—in humble circumstances, without a liberal education, the young Rodin had to fight from the beginning; fight for bread as well as an art schooling. He was not even sure of his vocation. An accident determined it. He became a workman in the atelier of the sculptor, Carrier-Belleuse, though not until he had failed at the Beaux-Arts (a stroke of luck for his genius), and after he had enjoyed s...
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- RODIN
- THE MAN AND HIS ART
- WITH LEAVES FROM HIS NOTE-BOOK
- COMPILED BY JUDITH CLADEL
- AND TRANSLATED BY S.K. STAR WITH INTRODUCTION BY JAMES HUNEKER AND ILLUSTRATED WITH PHOTOGRAPHS
- AUGUSTE RODIN
- I
- II
- CONTENTS
- THE MAN AND HIS ART
- THE CAREER OF RODIN
- CHILDHOOD. YOUTH. FIRST STUDIES
- RODIN AND THE BEAUX-ARTS
- SOJOURN IN BELGIUM—"THE MAN WHO AWAKENS TO NATURE"—REALISM AND PLASTER CASTS
- FLEMISH PAINTING—JOURNEYS IN ITALY AND FRANCE
- RODIN'S NOTE-BOOK
- I ANCIENT WORKSHOPS AND MODERN SCHOOLS
- CONSTRUCTION AND MODELING
- THE TRADITIONAL LAWS OF ANCIENT ART
- II SCATTERED THOUGHTS ON FLOWERS
- III PORTRAITS OF WOMEN
- IV AN ARTIST'S DAY
- A MORNING IN THE GARDEN
- AN ANTIQUE FRAGMENT
- AN EVENING IN THE GARDEN
- V THE LINE AND THE STRUCTURE OF THE GOTHIC
- THE GOTHIC BUILDERS ARE REALISTS
- PLANS AND OPPOSITIONS
- THE SCIENCE OF EQUILIBRIUM
- THE LACEWORK OF STONE
- THE NAVE
- THE MOLDING
- VI ART AND NATURE
- THE ANTIQUE—THE GREEKS
- THE RICHNESS OF THE ANTIQUE LIES IN MODELING
- RONDE-BOSSE AND CHIAROSCURO
- ROME AND ROMAN ART
- FOR AMERICA
- VII THE GOTHIC GENIUS To THE RENAISSANCE AND THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY NOTRE-DAME
- SAINT-EUSTACHE
- CONCERNING COLOR IN SCULPTURE
- THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
- THE WORK OF RODIN
- I
- THE STUDY OF THE CATHEDRALS—INFLUENCE OF THE GOTHIC ON THE ART OF RODIN—"SAINT JOHN THE BAPTIST" (1880)—"THE GATE OF HELL"
- "THE GATE OF HELL"
- II
- "THE BURGHERS OF CALAIS" (1889)—RODIN AND VICTOR HUGO—THE STATUE OF BALZAC (1898)
- RODIN AND VICTOR HUGO
- THE STATUE OF BALZAC (1898)
- THE EXPOSITION OF 1900—THE BAS-RELIEFS OF EVIAN—RODIN AND THE WAR
- THE END
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