The Cathedral Is Dying

by Auguste Rodin

Master sculptor Auguste Rodin's illuminating writings on cathedrals in France are especially relevant and significant following the recent fire at Notre Dame. In this volume, the writer and Rodin scholar Rachel Corbett selects excerpts from the famous sculptor's book Cathedrals of France , first published in 1914, just before the outbreak of World War I. Cathedrals were central to the way Rodin thought about his art: he saw them as visual metaphors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1644230461
• ISBN13: 9781644230466
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: David Zwirner Books
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.2" x 6.8"