[The Thinker, Frank Anthony, Donald Ramotar, Clement Rohee, Hydar Ally, Indranie Chanderpal, Editors, Georgetown: Cheddi Jagan Research Centre; Vol.6, January – June, 2022, 66pp.]
The Thinker (Le Penseur) by French artist Auguste Rodin (1840 – 1917) is a life-sized sculpture of a nude man seated on a rock, bent forward in deep contemplation. It is one of the acclaimed and well known pieces of French sculpture and the most famous for Rodin. It was originally completed in 1888 as part of a collection called ‘The Gates of Hell’ but was enlarged and exhibited on its own in Paris in 1906. It is highly regarded and associated with philosophy and intellectual thought.
