Rodin's Dancers : Art and Performance in Belle Epoque Paris
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
ISBN-10
0300275161
ISBN-13
9780300275162
Publisher
Yale University Press
Imprint
Yale University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jun 10th, 2025
Print length
256 Pages
Weight
1,338 grams
Dimensions
22.30 x 27.80 x 2.50 cms
Product Classification:
Individual artists, art monographs
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Charting Auguste Rodin’s relationships with the dancers who shaped his signature style and his mythic persona. Juliet Bellow traces Rodin’s interactions with dance makers and performers during his late career (1890-1912) through a series of interrelated case studies. His exchanges with Loïe Fuller, Vaslav Nijinsky, and members of the Cambodian Royal Ballet troupe were central to Rodin’s development of a modern sculptural aesthetic and the construction of his artistic celebrity. But this was not a simple case of one-way influence. These performers actively courted an affiliation with Rodin, wielding sculpture’s cultural authority to move dance from the realm of commercial entertainment to that of “high art.” Bringing together art history and performance studies, Rodin’s Dancers demonstrates that in their search for innovation, dancers and sculptors experimented with one another’s means of expression, sites of display, and techniques of publicity. The book provides more than a new interpretation of Rodin’s art: it considers how and why the name “Rodin” came to stand for a powerful constellation of ideas about art, authorship, and creative genius within the vibrant spectacle culture of Belle Époque Paris.
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