Rodin /

Lampert, Catherine.

Rodin / [exhibition curators: Catherine Lampert ... et al. ; catalogue entries: François Blanchetière ... et al. ; translation from the French: Caroline Beamish]. - London : Royal Academy of Arts, c2006. - 319 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), ports. ; 32 cm.

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, Sept. 23, 2006-Jan. 1, 2007 and the Kunsthaus Zürich, Feb. 9-May 13, 2007.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 304-307) and index.

Introduction: Rodin's nature / Catherine Lampert -- 'The greatest of living sculptors' / Antoinette Le Normand-Romain -- The gates of hell: the crucible / Antoinette Le Normand-Romain -- The burghers of Calais, and the Monument to Balzac: 'my novel' / Catherine Lampert -- 'When I consider the honours that have been bestowed upon me in England' / Antoinette Le Normand-Romain -- Rodin's drawings and late works: 'what to keep and what to sacrifice' / Catherine Lampert -- Catalogue entries. Rodin and Assyria / Donato Esposito -- The burghers of Calais / Catherine Lampert -- 'A collection of mutilated gods' / Bénédicte Garnier -- The monument to Whistler / Catherine Lampert -- Two Englishmen in Paris: Stephen Haweis and Henry Coles, Rodin's British photographers / Hélène Pinet -- The Rodin donation of 1914 / Catherine Lampert -- The archives of the Musée Rodin. Directory of Rodin's British contacts / Véronique Mattiussi.

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Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917 --Exhibitions.