Giacometti
Giacometti

Author: James Lord

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1985-09

Total Pages: 630

ISBN-13: 0374161984

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Traces the life of artist Alberto Giacometti from his Swiss family home to prominence in the modern art world.

Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti

Author: Alberto Giacometti

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13:

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"Swiss-born sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) is best known for the bronzes of ghostly and attenuated figures that made him a key member of the Surrealist movement. This retrospective focuses on the artist's so-called "crisis period" after 1935 and during the Second World War, which coincided with a larger critical juncture for modernism itself. In 1936, Giacometti began to concentrate his attention on the human head, focusing on the model's gaze, and eventually giving his sculptures an extruded appearance. The artist's paintings and drawings underwent a parallel transformation, his heavily reworked figures appearing increasingly emaciated and at a remove from their surroundings. Examining more than 100 key works, the contributors to this volume revisit Giacometti in the light of this "crisis period"; essays by Donat Rutiman, Casimiro Di Crescenzo and Thierry Dufr'ne provide reexaminations of the artist's contribution from a contemporary perspective."--Publisher description.

Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti

Author: Laurie Wilson

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 9780300090376

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Laurie Wilson shows how Giacometti's secret beliefs & emotional scars are reflected in his sculpture, drawings & paintings.

Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti

Author: Alberto Giacometti

Publisher:

Published: 2010

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9783775727150

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"Space does not exist," the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) wrote in 1949. "It has to be created... Every sculpture made on the assumption that space exists is wrong, there is only the illusion of space." This fascinating statement serves as a conceptual underpinning for Hatje Cantz's new appraisal of the artist's mature work. Giacometti's emaciated sculptures have long been seen as symbols of a newly anxious, frail humanity. But more recently, attention has come to focus on the relevance of his work for contemporary considerations of space and time. Alberto Giacometti: The Origin of Space supplies a comprehensive overview of the later works of this lastingly influential artist, presenting 200 color images of sculptures, paintings and drawings.

Giacometti
Giacometti

Author: Alberto Giacometti

Publisher:

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 120

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Additional essays by Isabelle Maeght, James Lord and Reinhold Hohl.

A Giacometti Portrait
A Giacometti Portrait

Author: James Lord

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1980-07

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9780374515737

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When we look at a painting hanging on an art gallery wall, we see only what the artist has chosen to disclose--the finished work of art. What remains mysterious is the process of creation itself--the making of the work of art. Everyone who has looked at paintings has wondered about this, and numerous efforts have been made to discover and depict the creative method of important artists. A Giacometti Portrait is a picture of one of the century's greatest artists at work. James Lord sat for eighteen days while his friend Alberto Giamcometti did his portrait in oil. The artist painted, and the model recorded the sittings and took photographs of the work in its various stages. What emerged was an illumination of what it is to be an artist and what it was to be Giacometti--a portrait in prose of the man and his art. A work of great literary distinction, A Giacometti Portrait is, above all, a subtle and important evocation of a great artist.