Alberto
Giacometti
by Christian Klemm (Editor), et al
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Alberto Giacometti, the elegant catalog for a major exhibition at the
Museum of Modern Art in New York, seeks to counter overly literary or psychological
interpretations of an artist who has long been viewed as a poster boy for
existentialism. The atmospheric black-and-white halftones and color plates
are organized in closely interrelated, chronological groups to support
texts by several experts, including Christian Klemm, curator of the Alberto
Giacometti Foundation. By focusing on the work itself--which includes paintings
and drawings as well as the famously slender, elongated sculptures--the
authors emphasize his exquisitely calibrated response to the roles played
by perception and memory. In the portraits, for example, networks of fine
lines dematerialize a sitter's face yet preserve her essence. Anne Umland's
intriguing discussion of the roles of photography and the fetish in Giacometti's
surrealist-era sculpture is one of the many pleasures of this book. --Cathy
Curtis - Amazon.com
(Hardcover - October 2001)
Alberto
Giacometti : Sculptures, Paintings, Drawings
by Angela Schneider (Editor), Alberto Giacometti
Hardcover: 224 pages
Publisher: Prestel USA; ISBN: 3791313711; (August 1997)
Alberto
Giacometti : A Biography of His Work
by Yves Bonnefoy, Jean Stewart (Translator)
(Paperback - September 2001)
A
Giacometti Portrait
by James Lord
Book Description: 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
literarydistinction, A Giacometti Portrait is, above all, a subtle
and important evocation of a great artist.
(Paperback - July 1980)
Alberto
Giacometti/Diego Giacometti
by Yves Bonnefoy, Francois Baudot
(Hardcover - October 2001)
Alberto
Giacometti in Postwar Paris
by Michael Peppiatt
James Lord met Swiss-born sculptor Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) in
1952, when he had moved beyond the mysterious surrealist works that first
won him fame (The Palace at 4 A.M.) to the spookily attenuated figures
that made him a preeminent profiler of existential unease. Lord astutely
chronicles this transformation, and the evaluation of Giacometti's formidable
personality is notable for its sensitive delineation of his ambivalent
feelings toward women. Without scanting the sculptor's tragic view of life,
the author also inspires exhilaration with his portrait of a man who was
always true to his art. Amazon.com
Hardcover: 176 pages
Publisher: Yale Univ Pr; ISBN: 0300092423; (March 2002)
Looking
at Giacometti
by David Sylvester, Patricia Matisse (Photographer)
(Paperback - April 1997)
Giacometti
: A Biography
by James Lord
(Paperback - October 1997)
FROM
RODIN TO GIACOMETTI. Sculpture and Literature in France 1880-1950. (Text.
Studies in Comparative Literature. 21)
by Keith Aspley
(Library Binding - January 2000)
Alberto
Giacometti (Artists in Their Time)
by Jackie Gaff
(Paperback - September 2002)
Alberto Giacometti, 1901-1966
by Valerie J. Fletcher
(Hardcover - September 1988)
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