Rodin: The Man And His Art; With Leaves From His Note-Book (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Rodin: The Man and His Art; With Leaves From His Note-Book Broken Nose, was refused by the Salon jury is history. He designed for the Sevres porcelain works. He exe cuted portrait busts, architectural ornaments, caryat ids; all styles that were huddled in the studios and yards of sculptors he essayed. No man knew his trade better, although it is said that with the chisel of the practécéen Rodin was never proficient; he could not, or would not, work at the marble en bloc. His sculptures to-day are in the museums of the world, and he is ad mitted to possess talent by academic men. Rivals he has none. His production is too personal. Like Richard Wagner he has proved a upas tree for lesser artists - he has deflected, or else absorbed them. His friend Eugene Carriere warned young sculptors not to study Rodin too curiously. Carriere was wise, yet his art of portraiture was influenced by Rodin; swimming in shadow his enigmatic heads have more the quality of Rodin's than the mortuary art of academic sculp ture. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.