Catalog Search Results
Publisher
Jake Auerbach Films
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Auguste Rodin is acknowledged as a colossus that bestrode 19th and early 20th century sculpture: his iconic works The Thinker, The Kiss and The Burghers of Calais are so compelling that they have become part of our visual vocabulary. When he died in 1917 he had become a popular hero of the French and British nations but has this extraordinary fame cloaked his real power? Eight of Britain's leading contemporary sculptors agreed to look afresh at Rodin's...
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
[2016?]
Language
English
Description
"In this category-defying book, Katie Roiphe takes an unexpected and liberating approach to the most unavoidable of subjects: death. She examines the final days of five great writers and artists. Here is Susan Sontag, the ultimate intellectual, finding her commitment to rational thinking tested during her third bout with cancer. Here is Sigmund Freud fleeing Nazi-occupied Vienna for London only to continue the constant cigar-smoking that he knows...
In Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Jackson County Oregon can be requested from other Interlibrary Loan libraries to be delivered to your local library for pickup.
Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request