Suspended Ball, 1 930. Wood and metal, 234/5" x 1 A2/5" x 1 32/5". Collection of the Musee Notional d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges-Pompidou. © Phototheque du MNAM, Paris. Gazing Head, 1928. Marble, 16"10" x 14"2" x 3"K>".
The collection includes around one hundred photographs and a number of drawings, the majority of which have never before been published and are previously unseen.
Now, in the one hundredth anniversary of his birth, this book celebrates his genius, tracing his development from the tiny sculptures he made during World War II to the characteristically emaciated figures of his mature style.
" "This book is the catalogue for an exhibition to be held at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich, England, and at the Fondation de l'Hermitage in Lausanne, Switzerland.
"This deeply engaging book focuses on one of the most evocative and influential spaces in twentieth-century art: the tiny, ramshackle studio behind Montparnasse where the great sculptor Alberto Giacometti lived and worked from the late 1926 ...
Myth, Magic, and the Man Laurie Wilson, Alberto Giacometti ... 49 Giacometti's first postwar commission came through ... After his initial frustrating months adjusting to postwar Paris , Giacometti began to work .
From the Blurb: One of the great masters of 20th century art, the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti captured the existential loneliness of modern humanity with his spindly, attenuated figures whose...
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.
This book shows the work of Alberto Giacometti and Francis Bacon which was inspired by Isabel Rawsthorne. Isabel herself was an artist who moved to Paris in the mid-1930s and...
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Gathered writings from the seminal 20th-century Swiss artist Alberto GiacomettiAlberto Giacometti's early Surrealist and Cubist forms, compact volumes inspired by Africa and the Cyclades, eventually led this seminal twentieth-century Swiss...
While best-known for his spindly, attenuated figures, Giacometti also created brilant work in two dimensions. This book offers a scholarly assessment of his entire oeuvre and underscores the continity between...
A giant of twentieth-century art, Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) stands beside Picasso and Matisse as an artist who has defined the way our century is perceived, and alongside them as one...
"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...
Alberto Giacometti: the Last Two Decades
Webster J. Duck turns to several animals when he tries to find his mother.
The author looks at a selection of drawings by Giacometti and examines them against more than 100 letters exchanged between the artist and his parents, the majority of which have never been published to illuminate important aspects of the ...
The isolate and emaciated figures of Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) speak of the extremes of solitude, but the artist's own social and familial world was populous, composed of a greatly and...
Il volume è il Catalogo della mostra di Ravenna (Loggetta Lombardesca, 10 ottobre 2004-20 febbraio 2005).
Alberto Giacometti: The Artist's Studio