Alberto Giacometti (Artists in Their Time)

Discusses the life, art, and legacy of the artist Alberto Giacometti and includes a timeline linking the events in his life with world events.

GIACOMETTI, Alberto

Gaff, Jackie

History

Franklin Watts

Children's Books

Biographies

Giacometti's Paris: Lithographs from Alberto Giacometti's Paris sans fin published in 1969 by Tériade

Arts Council of Great Britain

One hundred years after his birth and a generation after his death, Alberto Giacometti is recognized as one of the small group of modern masters who dominated art during much of the 20th century. This centennial volume both celebrates his achievement and reexamines his work, contributing to a more focused concentration on the art itself. The Swiss-born Giacometti was a supremely inventive sculptor as well as a painter and draftsman of the highest distinction. Included here are many of his early Cubist-influenced and Surrealist works, often slyly humorous and allusively erotic, as well as his masterful drawings and paintings, and the elongated sculptures of the human head and figure for which he is best known. The book's three essays provide a comprehensive view of Giacometti's work and its multiple levels of meaning, examining his Surrealist years; the artist's unique concept of inner and outer vision; and his career as a whole, in formal and other terms.

Alberto Giacometti

Arts & Photography

Lanchner, Carolyn

History & Criticism

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART.

In 1906 tribal sculpture was idiscoveredi by 20th century artists; these objects had suddenly become relevant because of changes in the nature of modern art itself. These two volumes comprise the first comprehensive scholarly treatment in half a century of the crucial influence of the tribal arts--particularly those of Africa and Oceania--on modern painters and sculptors. In this visually stunning and intellectually provocative work, 19 essays confront complex aesthetic, art-historical, and sociological problems posed by this dramatic chapter in the history of modern art. The main body of the book contains a series of essays on primitivism in the works of Gauguin, the Fauves, Picasso, Brancusi, the German Expressionists, Lipchitz, Modigliani, Klee, Giacometti, Moore, the Surrealists, and the Abstract Expressionists. It concludes with a discussion of primitivist contemporary artists, including those involved in earthworks, shamanism, and ritual-inspired performances.

"Primitivism" in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and the Modern (Volumes I & II)

KRAUSS, ROSALIND

Maurer, Evan

Flam, Jack

Bassani, Ezio

Feest, Christian

Geist, Sidney

Gordon, Donald

Laude, Jean

Levin, Gail

Paudrat, Jean-Louis

Peltier, Philippe

Rosenstock, Laura

Wilkinson, Alan

Oldenburg, Richard

BRANCUSI, Constantin

Lipchitz, Jacques

Modigliani, Amadeo

Moore, Henri

KLEE, PAUL

Oldenburg, Richard E.

PICASSO, Pablo

GAUGUIN, Paul.

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Alberto Giacometti: Drawings, April 12-May 14, 1988

Claude Bernard Gallery

1957 epic series of 150 lithographs by Alberto Giacometti of his beloved Paris.

PARIS SANS FIN

CAHIER DESSINE

Rassemblant des textes célèbres, notamment liés au surréalisme, quelques-uns des entretiens au cours desquels le sculpteur avait exposé ses vues sur l'art, des carnets et des feuillets inédits, l'ouvrage montre l'artiste aux prises avec son art et avec la vie. Il permet de comprendre l'esthétique de l'artiste et le regard qu'il portait sur le monde.

Écrits: Articles, notes et entretiens

HERMANN

Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) was one of the most significant artists of the 20th century. He became obsessed with the idea of representing reality in his painting and, especially, sculpture at a time when the Surrealists reached their peak. Facing excommunication from the Surrealist movement, Alberto had the courage to return to working from the model in 1935. The evolution of Alberto's work was fueled by his relentless pursuit of reality until his death in 1966. He introduced a new concept of rendering distance -- his ethereal figures and heads are immediately seen from a frontal point of view. Alberto Giacometti captures the spirit of the artist and explores the work of a man who was constantly striving for more.In 1925, Diego Giacometti (1902-1985) joined his brother Alberto in Paris, where he helped carve stone and make plaster and bronze casts. After assisting with his brother's commissions for the interior decorator Jean-Michel Frank in the 1930s, Diego began to create his own body of work. Whimsical and light, Diego quickly established a style all his own. Diego's rich personality and unique vision shine through in the world he created, a fabulous world where cats, birds, and plants are posed on furniture like fairy-tale characters. Interest in Diego's art has increased over the years, and his work has influenced an entire generation of young artists and collectors.

Alberto Giacometti and Diego Giacometti (2 Volumes)

Baudot, François

BONNEFOY, Yves

Penwarden, Charles

Assouline

La passion du lithographe: Alberto Giacometti : oeuvre gravé (Collection Voyages) (French Edition)

Maeght

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