Rodin's art
Subtitle: the Rodin collection of the Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University
By: Albert E. Elsen with Rosalyn Frankel Jamison ; edited by Bernard Barryte ; with photography by Frank Wing.
Contributors: Rodin, Auguste, 1840-1917.; Jamison, Rosalyn Frankel.; Barryte, Bernard.; Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 662
Subjects: Rodin, Auguste, -- 1840-1917 -- Catalogs; Cantor, B. Gerald, -- 1916- -- Art collections -- Catalogs; Cantor, Iris -- Art collections -- Catalogs; Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University -- Catalogs; Sculpture -- California -- Palo Alto -- Catalogs; Sculpture -- Private collections -- California -- Palo Alto -- Catalogs
Genres: Catalogs.
Description: "The late Albert Elsen was the first American scholar to study seriously the work of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin, and the person most responsible for a revival of interest in the artist as a modern innovator - after years during which the sculpture had been dismissed as so much Victorian bathos. After a fortuitous meeting with the financier, philanthropist, and art collector B. Gerald Cantor, Elsen helped Cantor build a major collection of Rodin's work. A large part of this collection, consisting of more than two hundred works, was donated to Stanford University's museum by Mr. Cantor, who died in 1996. In size, Stanford's collection is surpassed only by the Musee Rodin in Paris and rivaled only by the collection in Philadelphia. In scope, the collection is unique in having been carefully selected to present a balanced view of Rodin's work throughout his life." "Rodin's Art encompasses a lifetime's thoughts on Rodin's career, surveying the artist's accomplishments throughout the detailed discussion of each object in the collection. Its essays on the formation of the collection, the reception of Rodin's work, and his casting techniques are invaluable. The other entries, arranged topically, include extensive discussion of Rodin's major projects."--BOOK JACKET
Notes: "The Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University in association with Oxford University Press."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 649-654) and index.