Book Description
This is a brilliant monograph devoted to the early modern sculptor whose bronze figures are collected in major museums as important precursor to modern sculpture movements. Maillol's massive female figures were characterized by massive volume and simplicity of form, a radical departure from 19th century Academic style, that abolished movement and recovered the simplicity of line and volume. This account opens with the artist's promising beginnings as a painter in the late 1890s, and follows Maillol's development as a sculptor through his masterpieces. Here are his first small but refined wooden bas-reliefs and the first small-scale bronzes of the years 1900-1905 that lead up to the large-scale monuments which gave him success and notoriety among both his contemporaries and modern descendants.
Language Notes
Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French
About the Author
Bertrand Lorquin is curator of the Musée Maillol in Paris and the author of Maillol aux Tuileries and other monographs on early modern artists.
Diana Vierny is curator at the Musée; she was the life model for several of Maillol's later works.
Aristide Maillol FROM THE PUBLISHER
"One of the most important sculptors of the century, boasting an international reputation and represented in the leading museums of the USA, Europe and Japan, Aristide Maillol has not until now had the position he deserved in terms of bibliography. This monograph is the first to be dedicated to him in thirty years. It is also the first to situate his production in a chronological perspective." Fifty years after his death, numerous exhibitions have presented Maillol's work throughout the world, but the opening of the Musee Maillol by Dina Vierny at 59 and 61 rue de Grenelle in Paris, has enabled his production to be viewable on a permanent basis. The time was ripe for a monograph bringing up to date the information we have about an oeuvre that is one of the major sources of present-day sculpture.
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