Rodin: Sex and the Making of Modern Sculpture
Category: Books,Arts & Photography,Individual Artists
Rodin: Sex and the Making of Modern Sculpture Details
Review "Getsy's Rodin throws brilliant light on the matter [of the sculptor's use of sex], as much amusing as instructive... in subject utterly concentrated, this is a revealing book." -- Brian Sewell, The Evening Standard, December 2010"This is an important book presenting arguments that are of great interest for the study of sculpture and of modernism generally [....] Getsy has established himself as one of our leading scholars of late-19th-century sculpture." --Cassone"Bizzarely contemporary [....] Getsy's book is a refreshing counterpoint to the impressive archive-based research of the last twenty years, [and] his arguments are totally worth listening to" -- Burlington Magazine"Getsy manages to take what seems to be the most obvious aspect of Rodin—his sexuality—and look at it in a fresh and compelling way. . . . You will never look at or think about Rodin''s sexy subject matter the same way again."—Bob Duggan, Big Think Read more About the Author David J. Getsy is the Goldabelle McComb Finn Distinguished Professor of Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He is also the author of Abstract Bodies: Sixties Sculpture in the Expanded Field of Gender (Yale 2015) and Body Doubles: Sculpture in Britain, 1877-1905 (Yale 2004). In addition, he has edited the books Queer for the Whitechapel Gallery's "Documents of Contemporary Art" book series (MIT Press, 20160; Scott Burton: Collected Writings on Art and Performance, 1965-1975 (Soberscove 2012); From Diversion to Subversion: Games, Play, and Twentieth-Century Art (Penn State 2011); and Sculpture and the Pursuit of a Modern Ideal in Britain, c.1880-1930 (Ashgate 2004). Read more
Reviews
If you always suspected that Rodin's work is all about sex, then you won't be disappointed in the book. Indeed it is, but it's about much else as well and this dynamic and learned book long essay (actually two) lays it all out. But the photographs of the works themselves are the highlight of this book.
