Alberto Giacometti
Subtitle: sculpture, paintings, drawings
By: edited by Angela Schneider ; with contributions by Lucius Grisebach ... [et al.].
Contributors: Schneider, Angela.; Grisebach, Lucius.
Publisher: Prestel; Distributed in the USA and Canada by te Neues Pub. Co.
Published: 1994
Place of publication: Munich; New York, NY; New York, NY, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 221
Subjects: Giacometti, Alberto, 1901-1966.
Description: One of the great masters of 20th-century art, the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti captured the existential loneliness of modern humanity with his spindly, attenuated figures whose life-like gazes pierce the vastness of space. Uniting more than 250 sculptures, paintings, drawings and graphic works, this extensive monograph is an exemplary overview of his oeuvre.

The book underscores the continuity between the two remarkable bodies of work that characterize his career: the pre-1935 works, which included the finest of all Surrealist sculptures, and the post-war masterpieces. As a result of a profound artistic crisis that began in 1934, when Giacometti returned to working from the model and thus broke with the Surrealists, the artist began tackling the problem of situating figures in space in an entirely new way.

Painting played a key role in the solutions that Giacometti found to this problem, and the discussion here of the relationship between his two- and three-dimensional works reveals him to have been as great a painter as he was a sculptor.

Contributions by several notable art historians address contemporary research issues and offer a comprehensive record of Giacometti's life and work. Among the many photographs of the artist and his circle are images by such notable photographers as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ugo Mulas and Man Ray.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-217) and index.
[Some articles] translated from the German.
"The essays by Reinhold Hohl, Dieter Honisch, Lucius Grisebach and Karin von Maur originally appeared in Alberto Giacometti: Skulpturen, Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Graphik, published in 1987 in conjunction with the exhibition of that name held at the Nationalgalerie, Berlin (West), and the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart.  They have been partly revised for the present publication"--T.p. verso.
Table of contents: title: Chronology ; Giacometti and his century / Reinhold Hohl; title: Giacometti and the Parisian avant-garde, 1925-1935 / Karin Von Maur; title: Scale in Giacometti's sculpture / Dieter Honisch; title: As if from afar : constants in the work of Alberto Giacometti / Angela Schneider; title: The paintings / Lucius Grisebach.