Metamorphoses in Rodin's studio / edited by Nathalie Bondil with Sophie Biass-Fabiani

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Object Details

sculptor
Rodin, Auguste 1840-1917
editor
Bondil, Nathalie
Biass-Fabiani, Sophie
Author
Rodin, Auguste 1840-1917 Works Selections 2015
host institution
Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Peabody Essex Museum
Subject
Rodin, Auguste 1840-1917
Catalogue of a traveling exhibition held at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, May 30-October 18, 2015; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, November 21, 2015-March 13, 2016; Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, May 16-September 5, 2016.
"This exhibition is a production of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, in collaboration with the Musée Rodin, Paris."--Title page verso.
Errata slip inserted.
Published also in French under the title: Métamorphoses : dans l'atelier de Rodin.
Contents
Rodin: Metamorphoses / Sophie Biass-Fabiani -- Rodin's world of plaster / Catherine Chevillot -- "In the studio of the world..." / Véronique Mattiussi -- Reassembled profiles of Rodin's method: "understanding is a long and difficult process" / Nathalie Bondil -- When Rodin would write on his works / Sophie Biass-Fabiani -- Rodin and his models: comedy or curtain-up / Hélène Pinet -- The photographers: Eugène Druet and Pierre Choumoff -- Breathing life into stone: Rodin and his marble statues / François Blanchetière -- Rodin's bronze sculpture: capturing his vision, perpetuating his legacy / Daphne Barbour and Lisha Deming Glinsman -- Max Stern's Rodin bronzes: a Montreal story / Sylvain Cordier -- The burghers of Vancouver: interview with Denys Arcand and Adad Hannah / Catherine Bédard -- Truman Howe Bartlett: "Auguste Rodin," The American architect and building news, vol. XXV, no. I-X, January-June 1889 / introduction by Sophie Biass-Fabiani -- Visits to the studio / texts collected and introduced by Sophie Biass-Fabiani
Summary
Metamorphoses in Rodin's studio reveals the work of Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) and the materials he used to accomplish it, along with his collaborators, models, studio assistants and founders, as observed by eyewitnesses, photographers and writers. The theme of metamorphosis plunges us directly into the secrets of the studio to unveil the constantly shifting creative process of this revolutionary sculptor. Rodin is a pivotal figure not only because of his expression, of a rare emotional and psychological complexity, but also because of his profound renewal of the language of sculptural practice. One of the most striking aspects of his vision lies in his ascribing greater value to the act of creation, which he placed in the forefront, than to the imperious dogma of a necessarily completed work: no sculpture was ever immutably final in Rodin's mind.
2015
19th century
20th century
Type
Exhibitions
Exhibition catalogs
Physical description
303 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour) ; 37 cm
Title
Rodin's studio
Smithsonian Libraries
Topic
Sculpture, French
Record ID
siris_sil_1055029
Metadata Usage (text)
CC0