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A Giacometti Portrait

Author : James Lord
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780374515737
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (157 download)

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Download or read book A Giacometti Portrait written by James Lord and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1980-07 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Alberto Giacometti

Author : Mercedes Matter
Publisher : ABRAMS
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Alberto Giacometti written by Mercedes Matter and published by ABRAMS. This book was released on 1987 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alberto Giacometti

Author : Emilie Bouvard
Publisher : Cleveland Museum of Art
ISBN 13 : 9780300263916
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (639 download)

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Download or read book Alberto Giacometti written by Emilie Bouvard and published by Cleveland Museum of Art. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A comprehensive survey of the work of the legendary Swiss artist, this book illustrates and examines more than 100 of his sculptures, paintings, drawings, and prints This lavishly illustrated retrospective traces the early and midcareer development of the preeminent Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), examining the emergence of his distinct figural style through works including a series of walking men, elongated standing women, and numerous busts. Rare paintings and drawings from his formative period show the significance of landscape in Giacometti's work, while also revealing the influence of the postimpressionist painters that surrounded his father, the artist Giovanni Giacometti. Other areas of inquiry on which Alberto Giacometti casts new light are his studio practice--amply illustrated with photographs--his obsessive focus on depicting the human head, his collaborations with poets and writers, and his development of the walking man sculpture, thanks to numerous drawings, many of which have never been shown. Original essays by modern art and Giacometti specialists shed new light on era-defining sculptural masterpieces, including the Walking Man, the Nose, and the Chariot, or on key aspects of his work, such as the significance of surrealism, his drawing practice, or the question of space.

Giacometti

Author : Alberto Giacometti
Publisher : Hatje Cantz
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)

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Download or read book Giacometti written by Alberto Giacometti and published by Hatje Cantz. This book was released on 2009 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) always saw himself at the center of a cosmos of events and people, a notion that characterized his examination of the relation between figure, time, and space, and in which the members of his family played an important role. Alberto's father, the painter Giovanni Giacometti, encouraged his son from an early age. His brother Diego was his assistant and model, and after Alberto's death, he became famous for his bronze furniture. Bruno, the youngest brother and a renowned architect; Annetta, his mother; Annette, Alberto's wife; and Silvio, the son of his sister Ottilia, who died in childbirth, were all indispensable models for him. Finally, although he was only a distant relative, Augusto Giacometti, whose abstract paintings continue to fascinate viewers to this day, was the "other genius" of the Giacometti family." "This generously illustrated publication based on the latest developments in research, this publication is devoted to the great sculptor, painter, and draftsman Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) and his family. Focusing on Alberto's works, it traces the lives of the Giacomettis and provides a deeper understanding of the art produced by its most famous member." --Book Jacket.

Giacometti

Author : James Lord
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1466815124
Total Pages : 763 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book Giacometti written by James Lord and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 1997-10-30 with total page 763 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The work of one of the towering creative spirits of the century, Alberto Giacometti's visionary sculptures and paintings from a testament to the artist's intriguing life story. From modest beginnings in a Swiss village, Giacometti went on to flourish in the picturesque milieu of prewar Paris and then to achieve international acclaim in the fifties and sixties. Picasso, Balthus, Samuel Beckett, Stravinsky and Sartre have parts in his story, along with flamboyant art dealers, whores, shady drifters, unscrupulous collectors, poets and thieves. Women were a complex yet important element of his life--particularly his wife, Annette, and his last mistress and model, Caroline--as was the intimate relationship he shared with his brother Diego, who was both Alberto's confidant and collaborator. James Lord was personally acquainted with Giacometti and his entourage, and combines firsthand experience with a unique knowledge gathered during many years of observation and research. In this exceptional biography Lord unfolds the personal history of a man who managed to achieve a heroic destiny by remaining utterly true to himself and to his calling. Giacometti: A Biography was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. James Lord has subsequently published three volumes of memoirs. In recognition of his contribution to French culture he has been made an officer of the Legion of Honour.

Alberto Giacometti

Author : Angel González
Publisher : Ediciones Polígrafa S.A.
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Alberto Giacometti written by Angel González and published by Ediciones Polígrafa S.A.. This book was released on 2006 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathered writings from the seminal 20th-century Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti Alberto Giacometti's early Surrealist and Cubist forms, compact volumes inspired by Africa and the Cyclades, eventually led this seminal twentieth-century Swiss artist to acknowledge a formal void that he would spend the balance of his career filling with the human figure. In the mid-1930s, influenced by the terrible social and political changes that were taking place across Europe, Giacometti began to develop heads and nudes in a signature style--they were universally elongated, skeletal, haunting, solitary and above all, transcendent. Giacometti's written testimony and reflections on his change of perspective, and on his artistic ideas and goals, are remarkable for their aptness and poetic quality. In his writings, gathered here, the artist pours out his doubts, his suffering and his creative hopes as very few artists have been capable of doing before or since.

Tate Introductions: Alberto Giacometti

Author : Lena Fritsch
Publisher : Tate
ISBN 13 : 9781849764834
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Tate Introductions: Alberto Giacometti written by Lena Fritsch and published by Tate. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Part of the Tate Introductions series, this richly illustrated and accessible book provides an engaging and concise account of Giacometti's work and life. It explores the story of the artist's evolution, from his first sketchbooks and professional works of art through his extraordinary Surrealist compositions, to the emergence of his mature style." --Publisher's decsription.

Alberto Giacometti

Author : Alberto Giacometti
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783775727150
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (271 download)

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Download or read book Alberto Giacometti written by Alberto Giacometti and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

Meet the Artist: Alberto Giacometti

Author :
Publisher : Tate
ISBN 13 : 9781849765084
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Meet the Artist: Alberto Giacometti written by and published by Tate. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet the Artist: Alberto Giacometti is packed with inspiring art-based activities for budding young artists, who can create interesting portraits, sculptures, and collage landscapes. Starting with a brief introduction to the life of Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), an important Italian sculptor best known for his distinctive elongated figures, the book then offers a series of creative activities that explore prominent themes and ideas in the artist's work. Featuring beautiful reproductions of actual artworks, and illustrated by a leading contemporary illustrator, this book, like all titles in the Meet the Artist series, encourages children to use art as an avenue for exploring ideas and expressing their own experiences.

Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) and the Perception of Reality

Author : Patrick de Vries
Publisher : Hatje Cantz
ISBN 13 : 9783775745277
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) and the Perception of Reality written by Patrick de Vries and published by Hatje Cantz. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at a refined selection of drawings by Alberto Giacometti and examines them against the background provided by more than one hundred letters exchanged between Giacometti and his parents, the majority of which have not previously been published. The choice of drawings and the selected correspondence illuminate important aspects of the development of Giacometti's work over five decades of his life. Furthermore, Patrick de Vries examines Alberto Giacometti's friendships with important contemporary artists such as Pablo Picasso, Francis Gruber, Balthus, and Tal-Coat, and discloses the artists' views of each other, as well as links and dissimilarities in their work. Discussions with Giacometti's friend, the Japanese philosopher Isaku Yanaihara, reveal interesting insights into the, rarely discussed, subject of Giacometti's fascination with East Asian Art.

Traces of a Friendship

Author : Ernst Scheidegger
Publisher : Scheidegger and Spiess
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Traces of a Friendship written by Ernst Scheidegger and published by Scheidegger and Spiess. This book was released on 2001 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs by Ernst Scheidegger of Alberto Giacometti and his art work.

Alberto Giacometti

Author : Arts Council of Great Britain
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (221 download)

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Download or read book Alberto Giacometti written by Arts Council of Great Britain and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Two Brothers, Four Hands

Author : Jan Greenberg
Publisher : National Geographic Books
ISBN 13 : 0823441709
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (234 download)

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Download or read book Two Brothers, Four Hands written by Jan Greenberg and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The inspiring true story of the Giacometti brothers, one an artist, the other a daredevil, both devoted to their craft . . . but even more devoted to each other. A Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People A Capitol Choices Noteworthy Title Everyone who knew them agreed. Alberto was the genius of the family. His younger brother Diego was his opposite--he didn't care much for books or schoolwork, and he had no idea what he would be when he grew up. But despite their differences, the two brothers shared an intense bond. Alberto Giacometti became one of the iconic artists of the twentieth century, whose tall, spindly sculptures grace the collections of museums around the world. Diego was always at his side, helping and encouraging, and in his spare time creating remarkable pieces of furniture, works of sculpture in their own right. The poignant story of brothers and sculptors Alberto and Diego Giacometti is skillfully brought to life in the hands of multiple Sibert Honor authors Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan, and the spectacular artwork of Hadley Hooper. This lavishly illustrated 64-page book includes extensive backmatter, complete with a timeline, source notes, photographs, and an essay on how to look at a Giacometti sculpture. A Horn Book Best Book of the Year A Washington Post Best Children's Book of the Year A Bank Street Best Book of the Year

The Studio of Giacometti

Author : Jean Genet
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780956441911
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Studio of Giacometti written by Jean Genet and published by . This book was released on 2014-09-12 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alberto Giacometti in Postwar Paris

Author : Michael Peppiatt
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300090697
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (96 download)

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Download or read book Alberto Giacometti in Postwar Paris written by Michael Peppiatt and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Looking at Giacometti

Author : David Sylvester
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 9780712674614
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (746 download)

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Download or read book Looking at Giacometti written by David Sylvester and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1995 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giacometti was one of the greatest sculptors and painters of the 20th century. This book is a criticism that fully engages with the working processes and most intimate ideas of the artist. It is also a powerful study of the nature of art itself.

The Cube and the Face

Author : Georges Didi-Huberman
Publisher : Diaphanes
ISBN 13 : 9783037345207
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book The Cube and the Face written by Georges Didi-Huberman and published by Diaphanes. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This monograph of French art theorist and philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman centers around a single sculpture: Alberto Giacometti s "Cube" from 1934 (Kunsthaus Zurich), possibly his most peculiar and atypical creation, being his only abstract sculptural work within a wider oeuvre, which consistently had the exploration of reality as its main objective. By conducting a meticulous formal analysis of the sculpture, and consulting sketches, etchings, other sculptural works and texts of Giacometti originating from 1932 to 1935, the formative years of "Cube," Didi-Huberman unwinds a net of questions, hypotheses, and historical contextualizations in which he envelops his investigation to unfold for the reader a wide spectrum of new perspectives. "Cube," as it turns out, marks an exception. It is a self-containing work, barred from any stylistic kinship and functions prismatically at the same time, delineates Giacometti s transition from his surrealist to his realist phase and thus contains in nuce principles which underlie his entire aesthetic understanding: the relation of the body to geometry, the problem of dimensionality, the separation between face and skull, the question of the portrait, which, in regards to this sculpture, prompts Didi-Huberman to develop the new notion of an abstract anthropomorphism . Referencing the works of Freud, Bataille, Leiris and Carl Einstein, which had a lasting influence on Giacometti as well, this study presents the reader with an exuberant plurality of methodological approaches and readings. Out of a newly arising sensibility for a formal analysis, Didi-Huberman develops his very own anthropological perspective on the notion of the image."