Rodin [antikvár]

forwordWith more and more young people finding pleasure in visits to Gal/enes and Muséums, the need has been fe/t for a wider distribution of books about art. This new public demands high standards both of text and illustration, but cannot afford anything too expensive. Arted, true to its twin cultural aims of making art avallable to ail and opening up more paths to knowledge, i s reissu ing in a new format its famous series on the great sculptors of our time.The history of modem sculpture begins with Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). The approach devised by Professor tonel Jianou in this book explains the artist's achievements, his influence on others, and the character of an art that attained unlver-sality by remaining human.The section on his work as a Sculptor shows how it was that Rodin was able to win a series of victories over the spirit of his time an age in which art had to conform to outmoded routines and conventions in order to get officia! récognition. It reveáis