Painters and sculptors : a second series of Old masters and new (1907)
Cox, Kenyon, 1856-1919 · New York : Duffield · leaf 297
it is absurd to make full-length statues of men whosebodies count for nothing in their fame and whosecostumes are ugly and unsculpturesque. VictorHugo had been transformed by the artist into a kindof nude sea-god, but Balzacs well-known physicalpeculiarities precluded such treatment, and his… … RODIN: THOUGHT RODIN 151 it was to be, the problem was to find some methodof concentrating the attention upon the head. Rodinhad made a vigorous bronze study for this head,already mentioned, but in the statue he seems to havereworked it, exaggerating his exaggerations in therage for expression,…
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