Rodin's touch grew to be infamous, infecting each of the sculptures he created and becoming the metaphor for his famously eroticized persona. David Getsy examines – in his lecture held on 29 June 2011 at 3.30 p.m. in the Institute of Art History, Husova 4, Prague 1, room 117 – Rodin's material practices as the site of these myths, demonstrating how his persona was disseminated through his ways of making sculptural objects. Drawing on his new book Rodin: Sex and the Making of Modern Sculpture, Getsy extends his discussion to address Rodin's often-overlooked marble sculptures of the twentieth century as bearing unexpected and contradictory traces of the legendary Rodin Touch.
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David Getsy is the Goldabelle McComb Finn Distinguished Professor of Art History at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.
He is the author of Rodin: Sex and the Making of Modern Sculpture (Yale 2010) and Body Doubles: Sculpture in Britain, 1877-1905 (Yale 2004) in addition to his anthologies and essays on modern and contemporary art in Europe and America.
