The Romantics to Rodin : French nineteenth-century sculpture from North American collections
(Book)

Bibliography: p. 364-367.

"The Romantics to Rodin aims to reveal the aesthetic and historical importance of French nineteenth-century sculpture. ... Not only did French sculpture exert considerable influence upon work produced elsewhere -- especially upon American sculpture at the end of the century ... but France in the nineteenth century probably produced more sculpture than any other country at that time or at any previous time in history. ... Along with the large quantity of surviving French sculpture of the period, there is an equally extraordinary amount of contemporary criticism and documentation, provided in part by an extremely active and diverse Parisian press. Both in terms of works exhibited and their documentation, The Romantics to Rodin represents only an initial sampling."--From the preface.