First published in 1967 and reprinted several times since, this is
the authoritative account of the work of the greatest sculptor
since Michelangelo. In it Champigneulle analyses Rodin's
significance as an innovator and his influence on his successors,
who were affected equally profoundly by his expressiveness, his
power of characterization and the subtlety of his modelling. The
book combines an appraisal of Rodin's achievements with a revealing
account of his personality and of his troubled personal life.
(Kirkus UK)
Auguste Rodin, the most famous and influential sculptor of the late
nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, is also widely considered
to be the successor to Michelangelo, whose genius was a lifelong
inspiration to him. Though the astonishingly lifelike quality of
his sculpture was in defiance of current academic conventions,
Rodin was spared the prolonged and bitter hostility meted out to
the Impressionists who were his contemporaries, and in later life
he became a famous and widely respected figure.
Bernard Champigneulle discusses Rodin's great significance as an
innovator in sculpture. For Rodin created an entirely new form --
the detail considered as finished work -- and in doing so exercised
a lasting influence on future sculptors, who were profoundly
affected by his emotional expressiveness, his power of
characterization, and his subtle modeling. This authoritative
monograph combines a searching reappraisal of Rodin's achievement
with revealing account of his personality and his troubled private
life.
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