Rodin : la lumière de l'antique /

Rodin : la lumière de l'antique /

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Author / Creator:	Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917, artist.
Imprint:	[Paris] : Gallimard ; Arles : Musée départemental Arles antique, [2013] ©2013
Description:	399 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Language:	French
Subject:	Rodin, Auguste, -- 1840-1917 -- Exhibitions. Rodin, Auguste, -- 1840-1917. Sculpture, Ancient -- Influence -- Exhibitions. Sculpture, Classical -- Influence -- Exhibitions. Sculpture, Classical -- Influence. Exhibition catalogs.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9268544

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Varying Form of Title:	Lumière de l'antique
Other authors / contributors:	Picard, Pascale, editor. Musée départemental Arles antique. Musée Rodin (Paris)
ISBN:	9782070141050 2070141055
Notes:	This catalog is published on the occasion of the exhibition Rodin, la lumière de l'antique, organized by the Musee Arles antique departement and the Rodin Museum in Paris. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Summary:	Rodin wanted to anchor his practice of sculpture in the continuity of Greek art, revisiting and filtering Roman copies. Reformulating the archetypes of ancient times, and integrate its own figures by assembling a Greek vase, column, urn. His art is an echo, the plastic perfection and expressiveness of its forms, has the Greek ideal. Masterpieces of ancient times, which have arrived until our time more often in the form of fragments, mutilated sculptures are also a formal parallel in the way Rodin had to work: Flashing the superfluous has to give his works a raw power, essentially mutilating his statues, he used the assembly of the fragment, the recomposition of the unfinished. Rodin never went to Greece, but collected 2,500 works or replicas, a sort of Pantheon, its own museum. But it is probably a Greece dreamed, allowing breakthroughs of the invisible, the inaccessible, and the unspeakable.

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Summary:	Rodin wanted to anchor his practice of sculpture in the continuity of Greek art, revisiting and filtering Roman copies. Reformulating the archetypes of ancient times, and integrate its own figures by assembling a Greek vase, column, urn. His art is an echo, the plastic perfection and expressiveness of its forms, has the Greek ideal. Masterpieces of ancient times, which have arrived until our time more often in the form of fragments, mutilated sculptures are also a formal parallel in the way Rodin had to work: Flashing the superfluous has to give his works a raw power, essentially mutilating his statues, he used the assembly of the fragment, the recomposition of the unfinished. Rodin never went to Greece, but collected 2,500 works or replicas, a sort of Pantheon, its own museum. But it is probably a Greece dreamed, allowing breakthroughs of the invisible, the inaccessible, and the unspeakable.
Item Description:	This catalog is published on the occasion of the exhibition Rodin, la lumière de l'antique, organized by the Musee Arles antique departement and the Rodin Museum in Paris.
Physical Description:	399 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN:	9782070141050 2070141055