Word: rodins
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most modern sculptures, dry ice is the ideal material [Jan. 12]. It's lucky Rodin didn't have...
...AUGUSTE RODIN by Robert Descharnes and Jean-Francois Chabrun. 277 pages. Viking...
With each passing year, Rodin emerges more clearly as the most profound, most expressively varied sculptor since Michelangelo, and here is a book that demonstrates why. In one superb photograph after another, the reader can trace the astonishing career of an artist who, though basically in the great classic tradition of Western sculpture, broke through formal bonds all his life. The text, an admirably incisive critique, enhances this tribute to Rodin on the 50th anniversary of his death...
Outdoor sculpture in the U.S. has long taken a back seat to the great plazas of Europe: Florence has its Mi chelangelo, Paris its Rodin, Rome its Bernini. But of late the U.S. landscape has come alive as dozens of American collectors have turned their gardens and front lawns into veritable sculpture galleries (see color pages...
...permanent museum in Washington, admits that he and his wife bought their Greenwich, Conn., estate in 1961 largely because of the setting it would provide for their sculpture. "I could just picture the Henry Moore under the trees," he says, "the David Smith beside the pool, Rodin's Burghers by the front door. In fact, I bought the property in 20 minutes...