Giacometti
Subtitle: critical essays
By: edited by Peter Read and Julia Kelly.
Contributors: Read, Peter; Kelly, Julia, 1970-
Series: Subject/object : new studies in sculpture
Publisher: Ashgate; Routledge
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Aldershot, Hants, England; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780754654469
Subjects: Giacometti, Alberto, -- 1901-1966 -- Criticism and interpretation
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: List of figures; title: List of contributors; title: Introduction / by Peter Read; title: 1. From "Vue d'atelier" to "Vie d'atelier" : 46 rue Hippolyte-Maindron and the beginnings of Giacometti / Jon Wood; title: 2. Giacometti's objects : poetry, childhood,and the neurotic theatre of projection / Michael Stone-Richards; title: 3. Giacometti's break with surrealism : abstraction, Hegelianism, and the communicating vase / Robin Spencer; title: 4. Giacometti and the Kauffmann tomb / Casimiro Di Crescenzo; title: 5. Giacometti's Geneva period (1941-1945) : the birth of new sculpture / Thierry Dufrêne; title: 6. Giacometti and the basis of sculpture / Alex Potts; title: 7. Alberto Giacometti, Michel Leiris, and the myths of existentialism / Julia Kelly; title: 8. From spectre to sceptre : Giacometti's sculpture in the writing of Francis Ponge / Peter Read; title: 9. "An unknown country" : Isaku Yanaihara's Giacometti diaries / Akihiko Takeda; title: 10. Giacometti in Fez / Sarah Wilson; title: Select bibliography.