Auguste Rodin (Lives of the Artists Series) - Softcover

Rilke, Rainer Maria

 
9781843680314: Auguste Rodin (Lives of the Artists Series)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1843680319 ISBN 13: 9781843680314
Verlag: ACC Art Books - IPSUK, 2007

Inhaltsangabe

<div><div>Near the end of his life, the master sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840&#8211;1917) hired the poet Rainer Maria Rilke to serve as his secretary. Intensely sensitive to art and able to express this awareness in prose of great lyricism and clarity, in 1903 Rilke published a profound meditation on the unique power of Rodin&#8217;s sculpture. Written around a chronology of Rodin&#8217;s work, it is also an introduction to some of the greatest sculpture of the 19th century.&#160;A translation was soon produced by the American poet and artist Jessie Lemont. Unavailable for many years, this translation is reprinted here together with Rilke&#8217;s original illustrations.</div></div>

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

<div><div><p style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt">Rainer Maria Rilke (1875&#8211;1926) was one of the greatest German-language authors of the 20th century. He is renowned for both his poetry and prose.</p></div></div>

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Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) was already an old man when the young poet Rainer Maria Rilke went to interview him for the first time. Rilke stayed on to work as Rodin's secretary. Intensely sensitive to art, and in particular to the irreducible power of objects, and yet able to express this awareness in prose of great lyricism and clarity, Rilke was destined to be the critic who would most naturally dramatise Rodin's work.

In 1903 Rilke published this essay, a sustained and profound meditation on the uniqu

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Verlag
ACC Art Books - IPSUK
Erscheinungsdatum
2007
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1843680319
ISBN 13 
9781843680314
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
96
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