Full Description
Camille Claudel (1864-1943) was among the most daring and visionary sculptors of the late nineteenth century. Although much attention has been paid to her tumultuous life—her affair with her mentor, Auguste Rodin; the premature end to her career; her thirty-year institutionalization in an asylum—her art remains little known outside of France. Memorably praised by critic Octave Mirbeau in 1895 as "a revolt of nature: a woman of genius," Claudel was celebrated for her brilliance during a time when female woman sculptors were rare.
Featuring more than two hundred photographs along with contributions from leading experts, this publication accompanies the first comprehensive survey of Claudel's oeuvre in nearly forty years. With essays exploring the many facets of her life, work, and reception; a biography; commentary by American sculptor Kiki Smith; and a fascinating appendix of documents written by Claudel and her contemporaries, this volume reevaluates the artist's work on its own merits and repositions her legacy within a more complex genealogy of modernism.
Contents
Directors' Foreword - Timothy Potts and James Rondeau
Acknowledgments/list of lenders
Introduction
Notes to the Reader
An Interview with the artist Kiki Smith
Camille Claudel: A Biographical Overview - Cécile Bertran
Women Sculptors in Late Nineteenth-Century Paris: Artistic Education and
Career - Clarisse Fava-Piz
Patrons and Supporters of Camille Claudel - Anne-Lise Desmas
Claudel's Critical Reception from Her Internment in 1913 until Now -
Emerson Bowyer
CataloguePortraits - Anne-Lise Desmas
In Rodin's Studio - Clarisse Fava-Piz
Sakuntala, 1886-1905 - Chloé Ariot
The Waltz, 1889-1905 - Franck Joubin
The Age of Maturity, 1890-1907 - Emerson Bowyer
The Little Miss, 1892-98 - Chloé Pelletier
Small Genre Statuary, 1895-1905 - Anne-Lise Desmas
The Last Years, 1902-5 - Anne-Lise Desmas
Checklist of the Exhibition
Chronology
