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Flesh and blood Auguste Rodin was a master of the sensuous reproduction of the human body in bronze and marble. Tom Rosenthal pays tribute to his sculptural genius
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Next week sees the opening of what may prove to be one of the
Royal Academy's most important and influential exhibitions for
several decades. The subject is Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) and the sub-
theme of the show is his long and fruitful links with this country.
More than 200 works, many from the Musee Rodin in Paris and his
country house in Meudon, give us an unparalleled opportunity to
understand why his work has absorbed generations of both artists and
art-lovers and why, in a period when...
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Rodin's Worst Work
Jerusalem Post
; Meir Ronnen Jerusalem Post 01-02-1998 The Israel Museum has mounted a show of some 30 items from its collection of works by Auguste Rodin (1840-1917), on the occasion of the loan of a recent bronze casting of Rodin's massive Monument to Victor Hugo. The museum has touted this loan (from the Iris
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Auguste in September; Rodin Museum sculpting 75th anniversary celebration.
Sunday News Lancaster, PA
; It wasn't the best timing for an art museum opening. On Nov. 29, 1929, just one month after the stock market crash that triggered the Great Depression, the Rodin Museum welcomed its first visitors to see the work of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin. This fall, as the Philadelphia landmark
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The sacred heart of Victor Hugo.(The Temptation of the Impossible: Victor Hugo and Les Miserables)
First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
; ... it altogether. Some of the finest artists of the time--Balzac, Flaubert, George Eliot, Turgenev--took the latest intellectual news to heart and soaked themselves in skepticism or even nihilism, as flamboyant suicides douse themselves with gasoline before striking ...
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Talk about a pen name. (Pierre Hugo, great-great grandson of Victor Hugo launches collector-item pens) (Brief Article)
Daily News Record
; Perhaps inspired by his great-great grandfather Victor Hugo, Pierre Hugo is hoping to ink a legacy of his own. He recently launched a series of collector's-item pens on which he re-creates the author's original notes and manuscripts. Pierre says that jewelry as art runs in his family. His father
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Rodin Museum celebrates 75th anniversary; Works of famous sculptor gathered to form dedication
Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque)
; PHILADELPHIA - When a young Auguste Rodin sent his first sculptures across the Atlantic for the 1876 Centennial Exposition in Philadelphia, critics and cognoscenti apparently didn't think much of it. The French sculptor's work won no awards and garnered no press during its time in Philadelphia,
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