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RODIN & DANCE
THE ESSENCE OF MOVEMENT |
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Alexandra Gerstein, Antoniette Le Normand-Romain, Francois Blanchetiere |
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£30.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1907372997 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781907372995 |
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| Publisher: |
PAUL HOLBERTON PUBLISHING |
| Pub. date: |
27 October, 2016 |
| Pages: |
192 |
| Description: |
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. |
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Rodin and Dance: The Essence of Movement is the first serious study of Rodin's late sculptural series known as the Mouvements de danse. Exploring the artist's fascination with dance and bodies in extreme acrobatic poses, the exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery, London, in partnership with the Musee Rodin, Paris, and the accompanying catalogue give an account of Rodin's passion for new forms of dance which began appearing on the French stage around 1900, from south-Asian dances to the music hall and the avant garde, and dancers like Loie Fuller, Isadora Duncan and Vaslav Nijinsky.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 Mouvements de danse, a series of small clay figure studies (each approx. 30 cm in height) that stretch and twist in unsettling ways, disregarding human anatomy so as to attain, to quote Rodin, "almost pure mathematics". These leaping, turning figures in terracotta and plaster were not exhibited during Rodin's lifetime or known beyond his close circle, and were only cast in bronze posthumously.Presented alongside the associated drawings and photographs of some of the dancers that inspired them, they show a new side to Rodin's art, in which he pushed the boundaries of sculpture, expressing themes of flight and gravity.This exhibition catalogue aims to become the authoritative reference for Rodin's Mouvements de danse, comprising essays from leading scholars in the field of sculpture and the intersection of dance and the visual arts c.1900.It will include an introductory essay on the experimental late work of Rodin, as well as the history of the bronze casting of the Mouvements de danse, an essay exploring the identity and role of the model who inspired the Mouvements de danse, an essay on the dancers Rodin admired, and an extensive technical essay on the making of the sculpture. The catalogue section will comprise detailed entries on the works in the exhibition. |
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150 colour illus. |
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UK |
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Paul Holberton Publishing |
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