ART SURVEYS

Rodin, Degas, Rosso, Bourdelle, Maillol, Lehmbruck, Matisse, Picasso, Lipchitz, Laurens, Epstein, Boccioni, Duchamp-Villon, Gonzales, Brancusi. Narration by Edward Fry and Nancy Rosen. Narrator: sculptor George Segal.

Rodin's 1898 monument to Balzac--called the first modern sculpture--undermined the centuries-old academic tradition. His contemporaries infused matter with imagination and meaning. They introduced the defining concepts of abstraction, ambiguity, and metamorphosis that laid the foundation for Modernism.

Masters of Modern Sculpture Parts I, II and III can be ordered as a set of 3 DVDs.