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The artist at work in his studio Shows artist Giacometti drawing and modelling in his studio in Paris.

Traces the life of artist Alberto Giacometti from his Swiss family home to prominence in the modern art world.

"Over the past fifteen years, our understanding of Rodin has been enriched by new archival research, the restoration of works by the artist, and numerous exhibitions. This material is brought together for the first time in this new monograph."--Jacket.

Auguste Rodin redefined the idea of sculpture in European Art liberating it from the constraints of classicism and created three dimensional forms which pulsated with life and energy. His masterpiece, the Gates of Hell, is the greatest public sculpture of the 19th century, a work that obsessed him for almost 40 years, and which acted as a laboratory for Rodin imagination and which produced some of greatest sculptures of his career, works such as the...