The Marfield Prize, established in 2006, is sponsored by the Arts Club of Washington. It is given annually to the author of an outstanding nonfiction book in the hope of promoting wider interest in the arts. The 2016 judges were TV and radio host Robert Aubry Davis, and authors W. Ralph Eubanks and Matthea Harvey.
“You Must Change Your Life wondrously reveals a neglected relationship between two masters of their art forms, the elder reinventor of sculpture at the turn of the 20th century, Auguste Rodin, and the visionary German poet Rainer Maria Rilke,” said Davis in a statement. “Rachel Corbett has woven this tale of their lives, and the women who were crucial in this story, with all the rough-hewn muscularity of a Rodin masterpiece merged with the twilight grace of a Rilke poem.”
Rachel Corbett, You Must Change Your Life (2016). Meudon, France: 1900. The sculptor Auguste Rodin and the Austrian writer Rainer Maria Rilke, who was his secretary, in Meudon. Courtesy of Albert Harlingue/Roger-Viollet /The Image Works.
Currently the editor-in-chief at Modern Painters, Corbett was previously a correspondent for the Art Newspaper and a staff writer at artnet Magazine (the forerunner of artnet News).
L'immense poète Rainer Maria Rilke 13/40
C’est grâce à lui que je découvre l’hôtel Biron en 1908. Il a été aussi mon secrétaire, une relation singulière et parfois difficile. Il a écrit des phrases remarquables sur mon art mais je n’ai pas su estimer à sa juste valeur l’immense poète quand il était à mes côtés.
Photo : Albert Harlingue Rodin et Rilke devant le péristyle du pavillon de l’Alma à Meudon
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