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fashionable body: wasp waist as ideology
…At a distance of more than four generations, our great-grandmothers’ fanatic loyalty to the wasp-waist ideal would seem absurd were it not that we now understand its deeper significance much better. Far more than a crutch, the corset was a … Continue reading
fountains: northern ways and water
The twentieth-century fountain revival began somewhat earlier in Scandinavia than it did in southern Europe. The foremost fountain designer of the twentieth century may have been Swedish born sculptor Carl Milles, who spent twenty-one years at Cranbrook Academy in Michigan. … Continue reading
witkin: aesthetic priest last rites
Sprinkle a bit of holy water. throw some ash over he shoulder and maybe keep a little pepper spray in the frock. A tragic morbidity that seems to romanticize violence even as it masquerades ostensibly as a critique, maybe a … Continue reading
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Tagged Andres Serrano, Auguste Rodin, charles mann, Constantin brancusi, Donald Kuspit, hal fischer, irina ionesco, Jed Perl, jeffrey silverthorne, joel-peter witkin, John Haber, Marcel Duchamp, Sigmund Freud, stanley b. burns, wayne owens
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freudian slide into nihilism
Maybe the problem is a mimicry of art historical forms without connecting to the poetic myths that animated and gave life to these forms. That is, the aura of the profound is a falsification in that the depth of the … Continue reading
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Tagged Auguste Rodin, Charles Baudelaire, D.W. Winnicott, Diego Rivera, Francis Bacon, Frans Hals, Jacob Epstein, Jonathan Jones Guardian, kitty garman, Lucian Freud, Martin Gayford, Michelangelo, Pablo Picasso, Rembrandt, Robert Hughes, Sigmund Freud, Sir Kenneth Clark, spruiell, Vincent Van Gogh, william grimes
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giants: part metal packets
Apparently, size does matter.They are giants. twelve feet high; a haunting reminder of the ancient nephilim said to have wandered the earth in a remote past. But these are mythological monsters transformed into autonomous structures that do feed a certain … Continue reading
claudel: before the poison
She was seventeen and wanted to be a sculptor. He was forty-one. He was Auguste Rodin on the verge of taking to the heights of the French art world, being compared to genius of Michelangelo. He had overcome the major … Continue reading
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Tagged Alma Schindler, Auguste Rodin, Bernini, Camille Claudel, Emile Zola, Julia Baudin, Marianne Faithfull, Mary Cassat, Otto Rank, Paul Claudel, Rose Beurat, Sigmund Freud, Stephane Mallarme, Zola
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every good work of art is a kind of joke
“No , the French spirit will never live in this German larva, in this beer-filled thing which is at the Salon.” wrote a rival sculptor in the “Revue de Monde Catholique”. Others dubbed Rodin “the Michelangelo of the goiter”. The … Continue reading
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Tagged Albert Elsen, Auguste Rodin, Diego Rivera, Dr. Beth Harris, Dr. Steven Zucker, Emile Zola, Honore de Balzac, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Michelangelo Moses, Otto Rank, Pablo Picasso, Sigmund Freud
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repercussions: the esoterics of bronze
The art world divided into warring and acrimonious factions over Auguste Rodin’s “Balzac” was first exhibited as a full size plaster version of the statue shown to the public at he Salon of the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts in 1898.Because … Continue reading
BRONZE SCULPTURE: ALCHEMIST CONSOLATION PRIZE
The Gates of Hell on which Auguste Rodin worked for two decades,is presently among twenty bronzes outside in the Sculpture Garden of the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University. Designed by Robert Mittelstadt, the concept seeks to evoke the spirit … Continue reading
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Tagged Alberto Giacometti, Auguste Renoir, Auguste Rodin, Benvenuto Cellini, Bernini, Bronze horse overture, bronze sculpture, Cantor Arts Center, Daumier, Degas, Donatello, Donatello Sculpture, Duke of Wellington, Edgar Degas, Gericault, Henri Matisse, Henry Moore, Leonardo Da Vinci, maillol, Marino Marini, Matthew Cotes Wyatt, Michelangelo, Michelangelo Buonarroti, Pablo Picasso, Renoir, Robert Mittelstadt, Sir John Madejski, Violet Shinbach
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