Sculptor <strong>Auguste Rodin</strong> once wrote that one has only to look at a human face tofind a soul no feature deceives hypocrisy is as transparent as si... » 

Sculptor Auguste Rodin once wrote that one has only to look at a human face tofind a soul no feature deceives hypocrisy is as transparent as sincerity. Theinclining of the brow the least furrowing of a look may reveal the secrets ofthe heart. Rodin was fortunate to have as his secretary Rainer Maria Rilkeone of the most sensitive poets of our time. These two essays discussingRodins work and development as an artist are as revealing of Rilke as they areof his subject. Written in 1903 and 1907 these essays mark the entry of thepoet into the world of letters. Rilkes description of Rodin as a worker whoseonly desire was to penetrate with all his forces into the humble and difficultmeaning of his tools sheds light on the profound psychic connection betweenthe two great artists both masters of giving life to the invisible within thevisible concerned with the unnoticed the small the concealed...with theprofound and surprising unrest of living things. Twenty original photographsby Michael Eastman will accompany the essays. «