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...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...
...sculpture at Expo is mostly co temporary, explains Arts Adviser J. Jacques Besner, because "every exposition provides a chance for the world to take inventory of man's progress. Back in 1900, Paris showed Rodin and all those boys, so we felt that in 1967, we owed it to contemporary artists to show what they could do." Canada's Expo corporation commissioned 40 Canadian sculptors to design $1,000,000 worth of sculpture to fill the central promenades and the Canadian and theme pavilions; Canadian industry kicked in with another $1,500,000 worth of commissions for more...