{"title":"Rachel Corbett","description":"\u003cp\u003eRachel Corbett's works traverse the nuanced intersections of \u003cem\u003earts and culture\u003c\/em\u003e, offering readers profound reflections on creativity and human experience. Her compelling narratives blend intimate biography with sharp cultural criticism, inviting a deeper understanding of the forces shaping our world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFrom gripping explorations of historical and contemporary figures to thought-provoking examinations of society's darker facets, Corbett’s books engage with themes of transformation and identity. Her storytelling captivates those drawn to literary memoirs and insightful crime and thriller elements alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"the-monsters-we-make-by-rachel-corbett-9780393867695","title":"The Monsters We Make","description":null,"brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46795461099756,"sku":"9780393867695","price":54.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/5757833482328.jpg?v=1757031378"},{"product_id":"you-must-change-your-life-by-rachel-corbett-9780393354928","title":"You Must Change Your Life","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"[An] empathetic and imaginative biography, deeply researched.\" \u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e—The New Yorker\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1902, Rainer Maria Rilke—then a struggling poet in Germany—went to Paris to research and write a short book about the sculptor Auguste Rodin. The two were almost polar opposites: Rilke in his twenties, delicate and unknown; Rodin in his sixties, carnal and revered. Yet they fell into an instantaneous friendship—and before long Rodin hired Rilke as his secretary.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWith verve and great insight, Corbett transports readers to turn-of-the-twentieth-century Paris to explore this surprising friendship and the development of their influential ideas about art and creativity. She captures the dawn of modernism with appearances by such charismatic figures as Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Isadora Duncan, George Bernard Shaw, and Jean Cocteau, as well as the rise of the concept of \"empathy\" amid the pioneering work of Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Georg Simmel.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCorbett also introduces the women in these men’s lives, many of them esteemed writers and artists in their own right: Rodin’s muse Camille Claudel, Rilke’s wife and fellow artist Clara Westhoff, and the remarkable Lou Andreas-Salome, who was Nietzsche’s lover and Rilke’s lifelong friend.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eYou Must Change Your Life\u003c\/em\u003e is a vibrant portrait of Rilke and Rodin’s singular friendship, heartbreaking rift, and moving reconciliation, and it is a testament to the ways their work continues to reverberate to this day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e16 illustrations\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47072980140268,"sku":"9780393354928","price":33.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/630163482328.jpg?v=1765135215"},{"product_id":"the-cathedral-is-dying-by-auguste-rodin-9781644230466","title":"The Cathedral is Dying","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaster sculptor Auguste Rodin's illuminating writings on cathedrals in France are especially relevant and significant following the recent fire at Notre Dame.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn this volume, the writer and Rodin scholar Rachel Corbett selects excerpts from the famous sculptor's book \u003cem\u003eCathedrals of France\u003c\/em\u003e, first published in 1914, just before the outbreak of World War I. Cathedrals were central to the way Rodin thought about his art: he saw them as visual metaphors for the human figure, among the finest examples of craftsmanship known to modern man, and as a model for how to live and work - slowly, brick by brick.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHere, Corbett takes the fire at Notre Dame and the concerns over its restoration as an entry point in an exploration of Rodin's cathedrals. Rodin adamantly opposed restoration, as he felt it often did more damage than the original injury. (Many of the cathedrals that Rodin examines in his texts were, in fact, bombed during the war.) But while he rails against various restoration efforts as evidence that \"we are letting our cathedrals die,\" the book, with its tenderly rendered sketches and written portraits, is itself an attempt to preserve these cathedrals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe selection of texts in this volume is a reminder - as is the tragedy of Notre Dame - of why we ought to appreciate these feats of architecture, whether or not they are still standing today.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Thames and Hudson (Australia) Pty Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47464306802924,"sku":"9781644230466","price":19.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781644230466-the-cathedral-is-dying.jpg?v=1775045911"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/collections\/rachel-corbett.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}