Auguste Rodin and Camille Claudel

Schmoll gen. Eisenwerth, J. A. (Josef Adolf), 1915-2010, author.

Book 1994

"The relationship between Camille Claudel and Auguste Rodin was one of the most artistically fruitful and passionate turn-of-the-century love affairs. When they first met in 1883, Rodin was forty-four and Claudel a promising sculptor of twenty. Despite the positive response of critics to her early work, Claudel, however, never experienced fame and success. The tragic circumstances of her life - the last thirty years were spent in a psychiatric ho...

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ISBN:

9783791313825
3791313827

Description:

128 pages : illustrations, photographs, portraits ; 25 cm

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 123-124)

Contents:

The tragedy of Camille Claudel
Camille Claudel's family and youth
Rodin's rise to genius
Rodin and Camille Claudel
The eternal triangle: Rodin, Camille Claudel, and Rose Beuret
A private marriage contract
Emotional vicissitudes
Attraction and repulsion
A romance with Debussy?
Clotho: Camille Claudel's Goddess of Fate
The fruits of hatred
L'Age mur: symbol of the eternal triangle
Small-scale sculptures in Claudel's late work
Perseus and the Gorgon: Camille's swan song
The work of Camille Claudel: an overall assessment
The gathering shades
The role of Paul Claudel in his sister's drama
From Idol to Sphinx: Camille in the eyes of Rodin

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gb 95088257

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52798

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