Giacometti
By: edited by Megan Fontanella, Karole P.B. Vail ; with contributions by Valerie J. Fletcher, Catherine Grenier
Contributors: Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation; Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Publisher: Guggenheim Museum Publications
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 159
ISBN-13: 9780892075386
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Exhibitions
Work titles: Giacometti (Guggenheim Museum Publications)
Description: This comprehensive survey of the work of the Swiss-born modern master Alberto Giacometti offers a fresh and incisive account of his creative output. Published on the occasion of Giacometti's first major museum presentation in the US in over a decade, the volume brings together nearly 200 sculptures, paintings and drawings to trace the artist's wide-ranging and innovative engagement with the human form across various mediums. While Giacometti may be best known for his distinct figurative sculptures that emerged after World War II, including a series of elongated standing women, striding men and expressive busts, this volume devotes equal attention to the artist's early and midcareer development. It explores his lesser-known engagement with Cubism and Surrealism as well as African, Oceanic and Cycladic art, while also highlighting his remarkable talents as a draftsman and painter alongside his sculptural oeuvre. Of particular focus is Giacometti's studio practice, in addition to historical photographs documenting his relationship with the Guggenheim Museum - which hosted the artist's first US museum exhibition, in 1955 - and with New York City. Exhibition: Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA (8.6. - 12.9.2018).
Notes: Published on the occasion of the exhibition Giacometti, co-organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, and the Fondation Giacometti, Paris.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 156-157).