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Camille Claudel
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Camille Claudel (1864–1943) was among the most daring and
visionary sculptors of the late nineteenth century. Although much
attention has been paid to her tumultuous life—her affair with
her mentor, Auguste Rodin; the premature end to her career; her
thirty-year institutionalization in an asylum—her art remains
little known outside of France. Memorably praised by critic Octave
Mirbeau in 1895 as “a revolt of nature: a woman of genius,”
Claudel was celebrated for her brilliance during a time when female
woman sculptors were rare. Featuring more than two hundred
photographs along with contributions from leading experts, this
publication accompanies the first comprehensive survey of
Claudel’s oeuvre in nearly forty years. With essays exploring the
many facets of her life, work, and reception; a biography;
commentary by American sculptor Kiki Smith; and a fascinating
appendix of documents written by Claudel and her contemporaries,
this volume reevaluates the artist’s work on its own merits and
repositions her legacy within a more complex genealogy of
modernism.
The first comprehensive catalogue of the Getty Museum's significant
collection of French Rococo ebenisterie furniture. This catalogue
focuses on French ebenisterie furniture in the Rococo style dating
from 1735 to 1760. These splendid objects directly reflect the
tastes of the Museum's founder, J. Paul Getty, who started
collecting in this area in 1938 and continued until his death in
1976. The Museum's collection is particularly rich in examples
created by the most talented cabinet masters then active in Paris,
including Bernard van Risenburgh II (after 1696-ca. 1766), Jacques
Dubois (1694-1763), and Jean-Francois Oeben (1721-1763). Working
for members of the French royal family and aristocracy, these
craftsmen excelled at producing veneered and marquetried pieces of
furniture (tables, cabinets, and chests of drawers) fashionable for
their lavish surfaces, refined gilt-bronze mounts, and elaborate
design. These objects were renowned throughout Europe at a time
when Paris was considered the capital of good taste. The entry on
each work comprises both a curatorial section, with description and
commentary, and a conservation report, with construction diagrams.
An introduction by Anne-Lise Desmas traces the collection's
acquisition history, and two technical essays by Arlen Heginbotham
present methodologies and findings on the analysis of gilt-bronze
mounts and lacquer. www.getty.edu/publications/rococo
One of the most imaginative and fascinating artists of
eighteenth-century France, Edme Bouchardon (1698-1762) was
instrumental in the transition from Rococo to Neoclassicism and in
the artistic rediscovery of classical antiquity. Much celebrated in
his time, Bouchardon created some of the most iconic images of the
age of Louis XV. His oeuvre demonstrates a remarkable variety of
themes (from copies after the antique to subjects of history and
mythology, portraiture, anatomical studies, ornament, fountains and
tombs), media (drawings, sculptures, medals, prints), and
techniques (chalk, plaster, wax, terracotta, marble, bronze). This
lavishly illustrated publication represents an unprecedented and
thorough survey on this major and unique artist from the Age of
Enlightenment, offering in-depth scholarship based on unpublished
material detailing the subtle relationship between, as well as the
relative autonomy of, the artist's two careers as a sculptor and a
draftsman.
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