Rodin's Art: The Rodin Collection of Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center of Visual Arts at Stanford University

by Rosalyn Frankel Jamison, Albert E. Elsen, the late Albert E. Elsen

Book Overview

The late Albert Elsen was the first American scholar to study seriously the work of the French sculptor Auguste Rodin, and the person most responsible for a revival of interest in the artist as a modern innovator--after years during which the sculpture had been dismissed as so much Victorian bathos. After a fortuitous meeting with the financier, philanthropist, and art collector B. Gerald Cantor, Elsen helped Cantor to build up a major collection...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195133811
• ISBN13: 9780195133813
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 680 Pages
• Weight: 6.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 9.4" x 10.9"