Auguste Rodin

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"The principal impression in any encounter with the full span of Auguste Rodin's (1840-1917) immense body of work is that he had looked at everything that preceded him. This impression is so overwhelming, in fact, that it is not a surprise that scholarship on Rodin's influences and sources is quite sparse. In part this is a function of the rapid decline of Rodin's critical reputation after his death and, perhaps, of the fact that the popularity of his most famous work has never diminished. The more salient factor may be, however, that Rodin's oeuvre seems to be the culmination of the tradition of, primarily nude, sculpture that reaches back at least 2,000 years. Realistic, even idealized, nude sculpture simply seems to end with Rodin and the few direct influences on eminent sculptors seem to point up their irrelevance rather than Rodin's importance. Aside from the..."

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