From Rodin to Giacometti : : sculpture and literature in France 1880-1950 / / edited by Keith Apsley, Elizabeth Cowling, Peter Sharratt.

This book is a collection of papers delivered at an international conference in September 1996 at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art during a major Giacometti retrospective. The contributors are leading curators, art historians and literature specialists. While the relationship between nine...

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Superior document:Harvard studies in comparative literature
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Place / Publishing House:Amsterdam ;, Atlanta, Georgia : : Editions Rodopi,, [2000]
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Year of Publication:2000
Language:English
Series:Harvard studies in comparative literature.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: 1. Peter SHARRATT: Introduction: Ut Sculptura Poesis. 2. Michael BISHOP: Rodin in the Poetics of his Time. 3. Anne PINGEOT: Sculpture and Literature in Nineteenth-Century France. 4. Penelope CURTIS: Sculpting in Patois : Emile-Antoine Bourdelle and the language of regionalism. 5. Richard KENDALL: Edgar Degas, Poet: Paul Valéry, Sculptor. 6. Peter READ: Et moi aussi je suis sculpteur : movement, immobility and time in the fictional sculptures of Apollinaire. 7. Isabelle MONOD-FONTAINE: Pierre Reverdy and Henri Laurens: La guitare endormie 2.8. Eric ROBERTSON: Sculpting in air, writing in stone: Hans Jean Arp. 9. Serge FAUCHEREAU: Writers and sculpture in Paris between the wars. 10. Keith ASPLEY: André Breton: The Crisis of the Object and the Object-Poem. 11. Roger CARDINAL: Approximating Giacometti: Notes on Jacques Dupin's Textes pour une approche. 12. Mary DRACH MCINNES: Alberto Giacometti: le féticheur . 13. Elizabeth COWLING: Metaphor in Picasso's Sculpture. 14. Graham DUNSTAN MARTIN: Proprioception, Mental Imagery and Sculpture.