Albert Elsen
Rodin scholar and modernist art historian, Stanford University professor 1968-95.
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Albert Edward Elsen, Jr. was an American art historian and educator. A scholar of the work of Auguste Rodin, Elsen was the Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities at Stanford University. Career Born in New York City to Albert Sr. and Julia Louise Huseman, Elsen served as a sergeant major in the United States Army during the World War II European Theater of Operations from 1945 to 1946. He then earned three degrees from Columbia University: a Bachelor of Arts in 1949, a Master of Arts in 1951, and a Doctor of Philosophy in 1955. Elsen wrote a doctoral dissertation on The Gates of Hell of the sculptor Auguste Rodin, under the supervision of Meyer Schapiro. Later, Elsen received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts from Dickinson College in 1980.
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- Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts (1998) (43)
- Purposes of art (1968) (18)
- Purposes of Art: An Introduction to the History and Appreciation of Art (1967) (9)
- Rodin's Thinker and the Dilemmas of Modern Public Sculpture (1985) (7)
- Origins of modern sculpture: Pioneers and premises (1974) (7)
- Rodin's Art: The Rodin Collection Of The Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center For Visual Arts At Stanford University (2003) (7)
- What We Have Learned about Modern Public Sculpture: Ten Propositions (1989) (6)
- Hot Art: A Reexamination of the Illegal International Trade in Cultural Objects (1982) (6)
- The drawings of Rodin (1971) (4)
- The partial figure in modern sculpture : from Rodin to 1969 (1969) (4)
- Auguste Rodin: Readings on His Life and Work (1966) (3)
- Modern European Sculpture, 1918-1945, Unknown Beings and Other Realities (2001) (3)
- Introduction: Why Do We Care about Art? (1976) (3)
- The Gates of Hell by Auguste Rodin (1965) (3)
- On the Question of Originality: A Letter (1982) (2)
- For Better Undergraduate Teaching in Art History (1954) (2)
- Bomb the Church? What We Don't Tell Our Students in Art 1 (1977) (1)
- Rodin's Gates of hell (1960) (1)
- The Humanism of Rodin and Lipchitz (1958) (1)
- Henry Moore's Reflections on Sculpture (1967) (1)
- Rodin's Sculpture. A Critical Study of the Spreckels Collection. California Palace of the Legion of Honor@@@Rodin Rediscovered (1984) (1)
- Origins Of Modern Sculpture (1974) (1)
- Law, ethics, and the visual arts : cases and materials (1980) (1)
- LIVELY ART FROM A DYING PROFESSION, THE ROLE OF THE MODERN ARTIST (1960) (1)
- The B. Gerald Cantor Rodin sculpture garden at Stanford University (1988) (1)
- Pioneers of modern sculpture : Hayward Gallery, London, 20 July-23 September 1973 (1973) (1)
- Purposes of art / Albert E. Elsen (1962) (0)
- Bruce Beasley : an exhibition of bronze sculpture (1990) (0)
- Hayflick-NIH Settlement (1982) (0)
- A Review of William Tucker's Early Modern Sculpture: Rodin, Degas, Matisse, Brancusi, Picasso, Gonzalez, Oxford University Press, 1974. (1975) (0)
- A Review of William Tucker's Early Modern Sculpture: Rodin, Degas, Matisse, Brancusi, Picasso, Gonzalez, Oxford University Press, 1974@@@Early Modern Sculpture: Rodin, Degas, Matisse, Brancusi, Picasso, Gonzalez (1975) (0)
- Purposes of art : problem book to accompany (1962) (0)
- A Letter to President Nixon from the Officers of the College Art Association of America (1970) (0)
- Tohaku the Oriental Painter (1973) (0)
- Rodin's Burghers of Calais : Rodin's sculptural studies for the monument to the Burghers of Calais from the collection of the Cantor, Fitzgerald Group (1977) (0)
- In Honor of John Henry Merryman (1987) (0)
- All the masks fall off : Rodin's last sculpture, the portrait of Clémentel (1988) (0)
- Lipton's Sculpture as Portrait of the Artist (1964) (0)
- THE ARTIST'S OLDEST RIGHT? (1988) (0)
- A Volunteer Program for College Art Teachers (1969) (0)
- Art in Perspective: A Brief History@@@Purposes of Art (1975) (0)
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