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Rodin & Dance: The Essence of Movement
Antoniette Le Normand-Romain
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Description for Rodin & Dance: The Essence of Movement
Paperback. The authoritative reference for Rodin's Mouvements de danse series, with which he tried to capture the essence of the body in movement, pushing the boundaries of sculpture and the limits of human anatomy. Num Pages: 192 pages, 150 colour illus. BIC Classification: ACV; AFKB; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 219 x 260 x 20. Weight in Grams: 738.
Rodin & Dance: The Essence of Movement is the first serious study of Rodin’s late sculptural series known as the Dance Movements. Exploring the artist’s fascination with dance and bodies in extreme acrobatic poses, the exhibition and accompanying catalogue give an account of Rodin’s passion for new forms of dance – from south-asian dances to the music hall and the avant garde – which began appearing on the French stage around 1900. Rodin made hundreds of drawings and watercolours of dancers. From about 1911 he also gave sculptural expression to this fascination with dancers’ bodies and movements in creating the ... Read more
Rodin & Dance: The Essence of Movement is the first serious study of Rodin’s late sculptural series known as the Dance Movements. Exploring the artist’s fascination with dance and bodies in extreme acrobatic poses, the exhibition and accompanying catalogue give an account of Rodin’s passion for new forms of dance – from south-asian dances to the music hall and the avant garde – which began appearing on the French stage around 1900. Rodin made hundreds of drawings and watercolours of dancers. From about 1911 he also gave sculptural expression to this fascination with dancers’ bodies and movements in creating the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Paul Holberton Publishing
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
737g
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781907372995
SKU
V9781907372995
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99-2
About Antoniette Le Normand-Romain
Director, Institut National d’Histoire de l’Art, Paris. Curator of Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Courtauld Institute of Art. Curator of Works on Paper at the Musée Rodin. Associate Professor of Art History, American University in Washington, DC; currently Resident Fellow, the Center for Ballet and the Arts, New York University. Curator of Sculpture at the Musée Rodin.
Reviews for Rodin & Dance: The Essence of Movement
Simply put, Rodin excelled at fragmentation, assemblage and variation.
The Art Newspaper
Perfectly realised … excellent catalogue"
Apollo Magazine
The Art Newspaper
Perfectly realised … excellent catalogue"
Apollo Magazine