Art critics and historians and other scholars trace French sculptor Auguste Rodin's (1840-1917) career in Britain, focusing on the period from the early 1880s when he began to exhibit in London, to the autumn of 1914 when he gave to the British nation the substantial collection of his work housed at the Victoria and Albert Museum. They consider the working relations between the art establishment and a burgeoning network of alternative exhibition spaces, the education of women artists, the world of private collectors, the changing conception of the state sponsorship of the arts, and the debate about the function and purpose of museums that his work sparked. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR