Origins of Modern Sculpture
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This work examines the radical changes that transformed sculpture between 1890 and 1918.
Albert Edward Elsen was een vooraanstaand professor aan de Stanford University, een Rodin-kenner en een historicus van de modernistische kunst. Zijn werk richtte zich op de analyse van sleutelfiguren en -bewegingen in de kunst, waarbij hij kritische evaluatie en een diepgaand begrip van artistieke creaties benadrukte. Elsens bijdragen verlichtten de evolutie van de moderne kunst en de impact ervan op latere generaties kunstenaars en theoretici.


This work examines the radical changes that transformed sculpture between 1890 and 1918.
Library Journal: "A one-man Rodin industry, Elsen (Art History, Stanford) has written several books on the father of modern sculpture; and this is his second on ``The Gates of Hell.'' In the present richly illustrated volume, Elsen tells the story of the creation of the gates from the first preliminary drawings through their successive metamorphoses. Included are a panel-by-panel illustrated tour of the gates and a concluding chapter on Rodin's time. Free of the usual art historical cant, this is a very readable contribution containing much material of general interest on Rodin's emergence as one of the great sculptors of world history."--Raymond L. Wilson, Humanities Department, San Francisco State University