Auguste Rodin

By Rainer Maria Rilke

Book Overview

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) had been widely known for decades when the young Bohemian-Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke traveled to Paris to interview him for an essay to be published in a German art... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1296495949
• ISBN13: 9781296495947
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: Andesite Press
• Length: 78 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.1" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Wrong book and condition

The book I got is not by Rilke and it is not in “very good condition”. Buyer beware.

"All right, Ben. Attend me."

"Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist-a master-and that is what Auguste Rodin was-can look at an old woman, protray her exactly as she is...and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be...and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body. He can make you feel the quiet, endless tragedy that there was never a girl born who ever grew older than eighteen in her heart...no matter what the merciless hours have done to her. Look at her, Ben. Growing old doesn't matter to you and me; we were never meant to be admired-but it does to them." -Robert A. Heinlein "Stranger in a Strange Land"