Rodin in Perspective

xii, 202 pages, illustrations; 22 cm. PRESENTATION COPY. Signed by the editor, with a personalized inscription, otherwise tight & clean. Corner crease/back cover, age toning. First paperback edition. *** An indispensable anthology of critical writings on the great French sculptor Auguste Rodin (1840-1917). **** CONTENTS: Introduction, by Ruth Butler; THE AGE OF BRONZE; Review of the Exhibition at the cercle artistique (1877)/ Anonymous; Review of the exhibition at the cercle artistique (1877), by Jean Rousseau; Review of the sculpture at the Paris saloon (1877), by Charles Tardieu; Review of the sculpture at the Paris saloon (1877), by Charles Tardieu; 1882 and 1883- Saint John, the portraits, and the portal; Review of exhibition at the Royal academy (1882), by Arthur Warren; Review of the Paris salon (1882), by Louis de Fourcaud; Review of the Paris salon (1882), by Paul Leorri; Review of the sculpture at the Paris salon (1882), by Phillp Burty; Review of the exposition des arts liberaux in the rue Vivienne (1883), by Gustave Geffory; Review of the exposition nationale (1883), by Paul Lefort; Review of the exposition nationale (1883), by G. Dargenty; Review of the salon and of the exposition des arts liberaux (1883), by Charles Fremine; Review of the St. John at the Royal Academy (1883), by Anonymous; The Gates of Hell and the Burghers of Calais; The Future Museum of Decorative Arts (1885), by Octave Mirbeau; "The man who returns from hell: Auguste Rodin" ( 1886), by Felicien Champsaur; "Visiting Rodin's studio" (1886), by Edmond de Goncourt; "Rodin and Zola" (1886), by Robert louis Stevenson; A visit to Rodin's studio (1888); Rodolphe Darzens; 1886-1889 MAJOR SUCCESS AT GEORGES PETIT, THE SALONS, AND AT THE EXPOSITION UNIVERSELLE; Review of the exposition internationale at Georges Petit (1886), by G. Dargenty and Armand Silvestre; Review of the exposition internationale at Georges Petit (1887), by J. K. Huysmans; Review of the Brussels Salon (1887)/ Octave Maus; "the sculptor rodin" (1889), by Gustave Geffroy; Review of te monet-rodin exhibition at Georges petit and Rodin's work at the exposition universelle (1889), by Andre Michel; Rodin enters the history of sculpture; "The new movement in sculpture " (1892), by W. C. Brownell; "Contemporary masters" (1895), by Louis Gonse; Rodin's fame in America (1896), by Lorado Taft; THE LATE 1890'S: A CRITICAL BACKLASH; "The failure of genius" (1896), by Felicien Champsaur; "Sculpture at the Paris Salons" (1897), by M. H. Spielmann; An interview with Sarah Bernhardt (1897), by Jacques Daurelle; "The truth about the salons of 1898 and 1899" (1899), by Paul Leroi; BALZAC: PUBLIC BATTLE; "Le vernissage" (May 1, 1898), by Jean Villemer; A letter to Robert Ross (1898), by Oscar Wilde; "Rodin's victory" (1898), by Jean Rameau; Rodin's defense (May 12, 1898), by Auguste Rodin; Rodin's Balzac (1898), by Arsene Alexandre; "Precious ridiculousness" (1898), by Henri Rochefort; "A masterpiece of modern art" (1898), by Frank Harris; 1900: World Renown; A letter for Rodin's exhibition catalogue (1900), by Claude Monet; The exposition universelle (1900), by Edmond Picard; "Notes on Rodin's sculpture" (1900), by Rudolf Kassner; "The gates of hell" (1900), by Anatole France; "Hands in Rodin's Work" (1900), by Gustave Kahn; "The centennial exhibition of French sculpture" (1900), by Gustave Geffroy; "Auguste Rodin, his work, his life, and his influence" (1901), by Camille Mauclair; Letters (1902), by Rainer Maria Rilke; THE MEANING OF RODIN'S ART; "Rodin" (1902), by Arthur Symons; Speech delivered for the inauguration of Rodin's Thinker in front of Pantheon (April 21, 1906), by Dujardin-Beaumetz; "Our Trajan's column: Rodin's tower of labor" (1907), by Ricciotto Canudo; "Auguste Rodin" (1907), by Charles Morice; RODIN'S GERMAN PUBLIC; "Rodin's work as an expression of the modern spirit" (1911), by Georg Simmel; "Auguste Rodin" (1904), byJulius Meier-Grafe; "Auguste Rodin" (1917), by Adolf von Hildebrand.…