Rodin

<p>While anchoring his practice in the traditions of antiquity and the Renaissance, <strong>Auguste Rodin</strong> (1840–1917) paved the way for modern sculpture. From a very early stage, he was interested in <strong>movement, the expression of the body, chance effects, and the incomplete fragment</strong>. It was these elements that gave shape, and the impression of life, to such famous works as <em>The Kiss </em>and <em>The Thinker</em>.<br /><br /> Produced in collaboration with the Musée Rodin, this TASCHEN Basic Art introduction examines the formative years of Rodin’s training as well as the key stages of his subsequent career. It <strong>retraces the genesis of his sculptures and monuments from both a historical and an aesthetic point of view</strong> and illuminates the links between his different works. The reader gains access to the artist’s ideas, as well as to the real material processes in his studio—<strong>the modeling in clay, the passage from plaster to bronze or to marble, enlargement, the creation of assemblages</strong>, and his deeply <strong>sensual erotic drawings</strong>.<br /><br /> An inexhaustible source of inspiration for subsequent generations of artists, Rodin’s work incorporated<strong> innovation and transgression</strong>, but above all an<strong> unrivaled passion for working in front of the living model and for capturing the truth of human experience and forms</strong>. With rich illustration and texts from François Blanchetière, this book invites us to discover—and rediscover—this priceless legacy.</p>