397 research outputs found
Les agrandissements en sculpture : l’exemple de Rodin
No full textEnlarging sculptures : the example of Rodin.
During the nineteenth century, several new techniques for reproducing sculptures were developed, in particular techniques for their enlargment. Rodin enlarged several of his works, and had his own special enlarger, Henri Lebossé (1845-1922). The author describes the processes used and analyses the technical and aesthetic problems that Lebossé was faced with. Under the sculptor’s control, Lebossé had in fact to engage in a real interpretation of the work, on account of the change in scale. Despite this, his status remained that of a simple technician. The author then examines the reasons that led Rodin to enlarge certain of his works, and identifies the relationship between the enlargments of small fragments and the directions of Rodin’s own aesthetics towards the end of his career.Martinez Rose-marie. Les agrandissements en sculpture : l’exemple de Rodin. In: Histoire de l'art, N°19, 1992. Varia. pp. 75-85
Mapping the Body and the Brain: Neurology and Localization Theory in the Work of Rodin
No full textCet essai tente d’interpréter les formes expressives des sculptures de Rodin à la lumière des modèles médicaux du cerveau et du corps qui commencent à circuler vers la fin du dix-neuvième siècle. Fondé sur la science neurologique, la théorie de la localisation stipulait que le cerveau se composait de sphères individuelles assumant des fonctions corporelles distinctes et que des canaux neurologiques spécifiques étaient reliés à ces zones particulières. La théorie de la localisation postulait que les activités du cerveau étaient compartimentées en se fondant sur la découverte que les deux côtés du cerveau n’étaient pas identiques. Se conformant à ces nouvelles théories, les figures de Rodin répondent à une multiplicité de stimuli internes, comme si diverses sensations, réactions et mouvements non totalement intégrés se produisaient simultanément. Alors qu’on doit à la neurologie la renaissance du concept du génie (artiste/poète) dément, le Penseur (artiste/poète) de Rodin adopte la posture emblématique de la mélancolie, traditionnellement associée à la fois au génie et à la pathologie. La théorie de la localisation et la neurologie ont servi de socle aux études sur les femmes hystérico-épileptiques menées par Jean-Martin Charcot. Dans Les Portes de l’Enfer de Rodin, juste en arrière du Penseur, on retrouve plusieurs figures de femmes damnées qui adoptent des postures associées à ce désordre
The reception of Rodin in his time and photographs of selected examples from my one man show
No full textIt it the author\u27s intention to describe briefly the works and the turbulent life of Francois Auguste Rodin, (1840-1917), who influenced such modern sculptors at Pablo Picasso, George Braque, Henry Mattise, and Henry Moore, and who emerged as one of Europe\u27s foremost sculptors. Rodin studied sculpture formally for twelve years and worked in Brussels, Belgium at an assistant to an architect. Upon returning to France, Rodin hoped to gain a position equal with contemporary sculptors. He soon found himself the victim of ridicule, accusation, and scorn. Rodin in the later years received many commissions from prominent people for busts and heads which added substantially to his reputation. In 1900 a special pavilion was built in Paris for an exhibition of one hundred sixty-eight pieces of sculpture and drawings which resulted in triumph for Rodin. Authorities have hailed Rodin as the discoverer of renewed vision and his work as the climax of traditional realism. Jacque Lipchitz compared Rodin to Cezanne as a contributor to modem art. The author\u27s sources include information from twenty-eight books and four articles. The nine selected illustrations of Rodin\u27s work were photographed from Sommerville Storey\u27s, London: Phaidon Publishers, Inc., 1951
Obraz Karpat w powieści Józefa Symeona Boguckiego "Rodin, czyli duch na drodze pokuty"
No full textThe image of the Carpathians in Józef Symeon Bogucki’s novel Rodin, czyli duch na drodze pokutyThe article analyses the image of the Carpathians in Józef Symeon Bogucki’s novel Rodin, czyli duch na drodze pokuty [Rodin or the Penitent Spirit] 1846. The first of the eight volumes of the work presents the story of the protagonists travelling from Kraków to the Tatra peaks and to Kalwaria Zebrzydowska. The novel was part of a trend, increasingly popular at the time, of writing about the mountains, although the author himself probably did not manage to visit the areas he described, having spent most of his life in Warsaw.In addition to analysing the descriptions of the mountain areas, the author of the present article tries to trace the sources of Józef Symeon Bogucki’s inspiration. It is highly likely that Bogucki may have got his information from Wspomnienia z Wenecyi, kolei żelaznej lipnicko-wiedeńskiej, Wiednia, Karpat Wadowickich, Frankfurtu nad Menem i przelotu z Krakowa do Tatr spiskich by Ludwik Pietrusiński, memoirs published a year before the premiere of Rodin.The image of the Carpathians in Józef Symeon Bogucki’s novel Rodin, czyli duch na drodze pokutyThe article analyses the image of the Carpathians in Józef Symeon Bogucki’s novel Rodin, czyli duch na drodze pokuty [Rodin or the Penitent Spirit] 1846. The first of the eight volumes of the work presents the story of the protagonists travelling from Kraków to the Tatra peaks and to Kalwaria Zebrzydowska. The novel was part of a trend, increasingly popular at the time, of writing about the mountains, although the author himself probably did not manage to visit the areas he described, having spent most of his life in Warsaw.In addition to analysing the descriptions of the mountain areas, the author of the present article tries to trace the sources of Józef Symeon Bogucki’s inspiration. It is highly likely that Bogucki may have got his information from Wspomnienia z Wenecyi, kolei żelaznej lipnicko-wiedeńskiej, Wiednia, Karpat Wadowickich, Frankfurtu nad Menem i przelotu z Krakowa do Tatr spiskich by Ludwik Pietrusiński, memoirs published a year before the premiere of Rodin
HOW TO READ KANT’S TRACTAT ’TOWARD THE PERPETUAL PEACE’
No full textOslanjajući se na metodu hermeneutičkog pristupa kulturi zapadnjačke pismenosti, autor upozorava na razlilčitu uporabu logike i gramatike pisma u Aristotelovim i Kantovim političkim spisima. Dok Aristotel u svojim spisima bilježi grčko političko iskustvo, Kant logiku pisma i značenje naslijeđene leksike pretvara u racionalni preduvjet mogućnosti kako razumijevanja ljudske prakse, tako i konstruiranja ljudske političke zajednice koja se legitimira umom. Autor upozorava na deficite Aristotelova, a još više Kantova razumijevanja političke teorije. Ocjenjujući da je svaka teorija oblik fikcionalizirane zbilje, Rodin sugerira novo kritičko čitanje tradicionalne političke teorije, kako bi se izbjeglo poistovjećivanje fikcija i zbilje; i još više od toga: kako bismo se oslobodili iluzija da su političke teorije pouzdani nacrti za političko djelovanje.Relying on the hermeneutical approach to the culture of Western literacy, the author highlights the different usage of the logic and the grammar of composition in Aristotle's and Kant's writings. While Aristotle in his writings records the Greek political experience, Kant turns the logic of composition and the meaning of the inherited lexis into a rational precondition of the capability to understand human experience and to establish human political community which is legitimized through reason. The author enumerates the flaws in Aristotle's and Kant's understanding of political theory. Since any theory is a form of a fictionalized reality, the author proposes a new critical reading of the traditional political theory in order to avoid the identification of fiction with reality. Moreover, we should get rid of the illusion that political theories are reliable blueprints for political action
Vladimir Voevodsky on the concept of mathematical structure in his letter exchange with Andrei Rodin
No full textIn 2016 Vladimir Voevodsky sent the author an email message where he explained his conception of mathematical structure using a historical example borrowed from the \emph{Commentary to the First Book of Euclid's Elements} by Proclus; this message was followed by a short exchange where Vladimir clarified his conception of structure. In this Chapter Voevodsky's historical example is explained in detail, and the relevance of Voevodsky's conception of mathematical structure in Homotopy Type theory is shown. The Chapter also discusses some related historical and philosophical issues risen by Vladimir Voevodsky in the same email exchange. This includes a comparison of Voevodsky's conception of mathematical structure and other conceptions of structure found in the current literature. The concluding part of this Chapter includes relevant fragments of the email exchange between Vladimir Voevodsky and the author
Letter from Tsuneo Iwata to Mr. Albert H. Rodin, April 16, 1942
No full textLetter of gratitude from Tsuneo Iwata president of the Turlock Social Club to Mr. Albert H. Rodin, Turlock District Chairman, in response to the mass removal in California.The Nisaburo Aibara Collection features materials from the Turlock Social Club, a local Japanese-American community group active between 1939 and 1970. It contains documents regarding the Stockton, Turlock and Merced Assembly Centers and Japanese American Citizens League chapters. The Collection also features correspondences with reactions, responses, and preparations for the forced evacuation. Additionally, the Collection has records on the Central California Cantaloupe Company, Turlock Farm Corporation, Turlock Japanese Society, and family records and funeral service programs of Japanese-American residents of Turlock
HIGH VIBRATIONAL STATE ENERGY REDISTRIBUTION IN PARTIALLY DEUTERATED CYCLOPENTENES
No full text S. Rodin-Bercion, D. Cavagnat, L. Lespade and P. Maraval, J. Phys. Chem., 99, 3005 (1995) L. Lespade, S. Rodin-Bercion and D. Cavagnat, J. Phys. Chem., 101, 2568 (1997)Author Institution: LPCM, Universit\'{e} Bordeaux IExperimental investigations of high vibrational states in medium-size molecules show clear evidence of large intramolecular redistribution of the vibrational energy (IVR). In particular, the CH bond stretching vibration energy rapidly relaxes in combination states involving deformations of the angles adjacent to the initially excited CH . In this contribution, the overtone spectra ( to 6) of cyclopentene and cyclopentene are analyzed with a model formulated in curvilinear internal coordinates including also the coupling between the ring-puckering motion and the vibrations. In the dihydrogenated compound, the analysis of the spectra indicates a progressive localization of the CH stretching vibrations with increasing energy. At high energy (from to 6), the spectra of the two compounds evidence different IVR for CHD or groups
Cultural-Historical and Political Identity
No full textThe author elaborates his proposition concerning the distinction of culturalhistorical and political identity by differentiating cultural-historical majorities and minorities from political winners and losers. He points out to a democratic paradox according to which a state is governed by political minorities of winners and not by political majorities of losers. In multi-ethnic societies, holds the author, both popular and political culture have to be developed, that is, both the cultural and the political tolerance
ASPECTS OF PHENOMENOLOGICAL AND CONSTRUCTIVIST EXPLANATION OF FASCISM
No full textAutor ponajprije kritički analizira Plessnerovo razumijevanje Husserlove fenomenologije. U nastavku pokazuje spoznajne granice fenomenološ ko-hermeneutičke metode koja je uspješna pri analizi tekstova, ali zakazuje u osvjetljavanju živih povijesnih procesa. Autor zaključno ukazuje na Plessnerovo nekritičko miješanje scijentističkog i fenomenološkog objašnjenja fenomena fašizma.First, the author analyses Plessner's interpretation of Husserl's phenomenology. He goes on to outline the cognitive limits of the phenomenological-hermeneutical method, successful in text-analysis, but inadequate in illuminating pertinent historical processes. In his conclusion, the author points to Plessner's uncritical mixing of scientistic and phenomenological interpretations of fascism
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