Pleasing himself
Peter Campbell, 31 March 1988
Rodin: A Biography
by Frederic Grunfeld.
Hutchinson, 738 pp., £30, February 1988,0 09 170690 4 Show More
by Frederic Grunfeld.
Hutchinson, 738 pp., £30, February 1988,
“... hands recapitulating the act of modelling – unless it was modelling that recapitulated touching. Frederic Grunfeld suggests that Rodin’s tactile exploration of the world was in part at least a consequence of his congenital short sight. Whatever the truth of that, the bodies he made were not a product of clinical objectivity, and Pygmalion-like ... ”