- Paperback: 576 pages
- Publisher: Flammarion (Feb 14 2006)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 2080106163
- ISBN-13: 978-2080106162
- Product Dimensions: 24.4 x 3.8 x 33 cm
- Shipping Weight: 2.9 Kg
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
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- #8 in Books > Arts & Photography > Artists, A-Z > ( G-I ) > Giacometti, Alberto
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Né en 1901, le sculpteur et peintre suisse Alberto Giacometti fait son apprentissage dans l'atelier de son père. Après quelques voyages en Italie où il est marqué notamment par Giotto et Le Tintoret, il arrive à Paris en 1922. Il devient vite un des protagonistes majeurs de la scène de l'avant-garde puis rompt en 1934 avec les surréalistes. Giacometti va désormais travailler avec un modèle, sur le thème de la figure. L'autre, son existence particulière, devient l'objet principal de sa réflexion, et l'artiste s'obstinera jusqu'à la fin de sa vie à restituer une "tête".
L'auteur de cet imposant ouvrage, le poète et critique d'art Yves Bonnefoy, aborde l'oeuvre de Giacometti chronologiquement, en relation avec sa biographie. S'appuyant sur ses écrits, ses rêves, il met en lumière, entre autres, son rapport à sa mère et son ambivalence devant la sexualité, sa violence intérieure et sa hantise de la mort. Bonnefoy propose une interprétation de l'oeuvre de Giacometti et une analyse de ses sculptures et de ses peintures dans un texte passionné qui nous fait pénétrer au coeur de l'univers de l'artiste. --Sylvie Lécallier --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
From Library Journal
One of the most universally admired artists of the 20th century, the Swiss-born sculptor/painter Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) is best known for a series of bronzes depicting ghostly, attenuated figures made during a burst of intense creative activity inspired partly by the cataclysmic events of World War II. The largest retrospective of Giacometti's work ever mounted almost 200 individual sculptures, paintings, and drawings, shown at Zurich's Kunsthaus and New York's MoMA has generated Klemm's fine catalog, the best book on this major figure to have appeared since James Lord's definitive Giacometti: A Biography (Noonday, 1997. reprint.). In addition to the aforementioned sculptures, Kunsthaus curator Klemm has assembled a farrago of this artist's eclectic accomplishments, from his early eminence among the Parisian Surrealists onward. Worth the entire cover price is the handful of pages depicting the astonishingly agile still-life drawings from the artist's productive mid-century years. An excellent and deeply inspiring book true to its subject; recommended for all art collections. Also timed to coincide with the exhibition is the publication of an elegantly packaged, slipcased set of two thin monographs profiling Alberto and his lesser-known sibling, Diego (1902-85), a designer of furniture and objets d'art and the metal smith who cast many of his brother's major bronzes. Identical in format and size, these books are primarily a conglomeration of a few dozen photos of artwork alongside short introductory biocritical essays and brief chronologies. Next to Klemm's hefty volume, each of these works feels more like a repackaged article from a glossy art journal, suitable as an attractive gift book but providing little for most library users. Nonetheless, as the only title currently available on the younger Giacometti, the set can be recommended for more comprehensive collections. Douglas F. Smith, Oakland P.L.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition.
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Alberto Giacometti is my favorite 20th century sculptor -- his semi-representational sculptures are powerful and expressive of the alienation and estrangement of us human beings who live as if the Holy One of Israel didn't exist. A reading of this book will better explain Giacometti to a hopefully much larger audience!
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great illustrations, curious text,
By Ivor E. Zetler - Published on Amazon.com
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This large tome is a translation into English from the original written in French and released in 1991. It is written by Yves Bonnefoy, who is primarily a poet by profession. His writing is often of an analytic bent in which he attempts to demonstrate how Giacometti's personality and life experience influenced the sculpture and paintings that he created. Be warned, the style is often prolix and difficult to fathom. I present a random quote from the book as an example." And this is, in a sense, yet another sign of the potential fecundity, the richness of this new period: between these two extremes, without sacrificing anything to their fundamental mystery, Giacometti is now entitled to suggest many compositions-of 'incredible complexity'-which, without reaching the essence of things, none the less will point to it. Sometimes they will let the never-mastered terror before nothingness overwhelm the artist's mind, sometimes they suceed, perhaps, in conveying the 'wonder' of life which remained Giacometti's great supporting thought during these months. Many things become possible: all of them ambiguous". Fortunately not all of the writing is as incomprehensible as this exerpt, but similar passages abound. Ultimately the attentive reader should be able to get some idea of what Bonnefoy is attempting to convey. The redeeming feature of this book is the copious amount of quality reproductions of Giacometti's enigmatic and often haunting sculptures and paintings. These beautiful images often occupy a full page and are in themselves a good enough reason to acquire this book.There are additionally some interesting photographs of the artist and his studio. Despite my reservations about the text, I would still recommend this book as an excellent overview of Giacometti's life and work.
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my favorite artist,
By don gatterdam - Published on Amazon.com
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If you love his work you must get this book. Its a great catalog of some of his finest works.
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Best book on one of true greats,
By Clive Murray-white - Published on Amazon.com
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Alberto Giacometti gave Western art perhaps the most persuasive and comprehensive view of the state of being human post WW2; eroded to its core yet still possessing the intelligence to think it way out of the mess it constantly makes for itself.Yves Bonnefoy's book Giacometti is the definitive work on this artist and should be compulsory reading for anyone contemplating becoming a contemporary artist as it contains all the clues that would alow someone to understand such essential things as integrity and the balancing act between idea and artistry. |
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