{"product_id":"book-1794","title":"Rodin","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuguste Rodin was not only the greatest sculptor-known for such works as \u003ci\u003eThe Thinker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Kiss\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Hand of God\u003c\/i\u003e, and dozens of others-but also one of the most remarkable personalities of modern times. He was an artist who outraged contemporaries with his disturbingly unfinished monuments, a sensualist who shocked France with his scandalous relationships, and a friend to the most gifted writers and artists of his day. Frederic V. Grunfeld's exhaustive biography documents a lifetime of both artistic and personal struggle-against poverty, against the conservative Paris Salon, and against an art establishment that for years denied him recognition.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRodin's crucial love affair with his pupil Camille Claudel emerges here in all its tragic complexity, as do his relationships with the British painter Gwen John and the American-born duchess Claire de Choiseul. Grunfeld also sheds new light on Rodin's friendships with such figures as Robert Louis Stevenson, George Bernard Shaw, ├ëmile Zola, and James McNeill Whistler.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeautifully written, \u003ci\u003eRodin\u003c\/i\u003e is the definitive biography of a man whose influence on sculpture was as profound as Michelangelo's.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49302931374384,"sku":"BD1794","price":31.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49302931407152,"sku":"ZE1794","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49302931472688,"sku":"ZM1794","price":44.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/1794-Square-cover.jpg?v=1775527455","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-1794","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}