Alberto Giacometti, 1901-1966

Alberto Giacometti, 1901-1966
ISBN-10
0903598612
ISBN-13
9780903598613
Category
Art / Individual Artists / General
Pages
192
Language
English
Published
1996
Publisher
National Galleries of Scotland
Authors
Alberto Giacometti, Royal Academy of Arts, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

Description

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 of the few modern artists who have created sculpture, paintings and drawings with equal mastery. This lavishly illustrated book accompanies a major retrospective of Giacometti's work at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. The two hundred and forty-one works in the exhibition include many of Giacometti's greatest and best-known pieces, as well as rarely-seen Surrealist sculptures and previously unrecorded works. All are reproduced - eighty as full page colour plates. The fully illustrated essays, written by some of the world's leading Giacometti scholars, bring together remarkable new research and make this book an invaluable introduction to the artist's life and work.

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