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The Cathedral is Dying (Paperback)
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The Cathedral is Dying (Paperback)
Series: Ekphrasis
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Loot Price R198
Discovery Miles 1 980
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Master sculptor Auguste Rodin's illuminating writings on cathedrals
in France are especially relevant and significant following the
recent fire at Notre Dame. In this volume, the writer and Rodin
scholar Rachel Corbett selects excerpts from the famous sculptor's
book Cathedrals of France, first published in 1914, just before the
outbreak of World War I. Cathedrals were central to the way Rodin
thought about his art: he saw them as visual metaphors for the
human figure, among the finest examples of craftsmanship known to
modern man, and as a model for how to live and work-slowly, brick
by brick. Here, Corbett takes the fire at Notre Dame and the
concerns over its restoration as an entry point in an exploration
of Rodin's cathedrals. Rodin adamantly opposed restoration, as he
felt it often did more damage than the original injury. (Many of
the cathedrals that Rodin looks at in his texts were, in fact,
bombed during the war.) But while he rails against various
restoration efforts as evidence that "we are letting our cathedrals
die," the book, with its tenderly rendered sketches and written
portraits, is itself an attempt to preserve these cathedrals. The
selection of texts in this volume is a reminder-as is the tragedy
of Notre Dame-of why we ought to appreciate these feats of
architecture, whether or not they are still standing today.
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