Giacometti, Marini, Richier
Subtitle: la figure tourmentée
By: sous la direction de Camille Lévêque-Claudet
Contributors: Marini, Marino, 1901-1980, artist; Richier, Germaine, 1902-1959, artist; Lévêque-Claudet, Camille, curator; Musée cantonal des beaux-arts Lausanne
Publisher: 5 Continents; Musée cantonal des beaux-arts
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Milan; Lausanne
Language: fre
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9788874396610
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Exhibitions; Human figure in art
Description: Alberto Giacometti, Marino Marini and Germaine Richier are distancing themselves from the academic representation of the body and with the figurative tradition illusionist. They explore new modes of representation to express their vision of the human being. Their learning than their latest creations years, they will never give up the representation, even after the Second World War, in a context dominated by abstraction, model heads and bodies are their source of concern and ongoing research. Bringing together a rich iconography and several trial specialists artists, the book shows how, faced with the inability to persevere in a traditional representation of the figure, the three sculptors propose "new images of man." Modeled in the earth or plaster, they innovate from the shapes and classic genres of the head, the torso, the standing figure and, in the case of Marini, the equestrian figure. In an era dominated by the aesthetic of smooth and use of rounded shapes, sometimes even transparent, the book invites to reevaluate their artistic proposals and to follow them in their struggle with the material.
Notes: Catalog of an exhibition held at the Musée cantonal des beaux-arts, Lausanne, Switzerland, Jan. 31-April 27, 2014.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 155-159).
Table of contents: title: La figure en question  -- Camille Lévêque-Claudet; title: Traditions et ruptures --; title: Du mouvement au déséquilibre --; title: Marino Marini. Équilibre des lignes  -- Maria Teresa Tosi; title: L'équilibre instable --; title: Corps fragmenté, corps écorché --; title: Alberto Giacometti. Figures, têtes et fragments de corps sculptés. Morceaux choisis  -- Casimiro Di Crescenzo; title: Têtes et bustes --; title: La figure dans l'espace --; title: Germaine Richier. Espace vide et géométrie du mouvement  -- Angela Lammert; title: Géométrisation des formes --; title: Giacometti, Marini et Richier en Suisse. Abécédaire 1940-1960  -- Camille Lévêque-Claudet; title: Liste des oeuvres exposées --; title: Biographies --; title: Bibliographie sélective.