Giacometti - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0892075384 ISBN 13: 9780892075386

Publisher: Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2018

Synopsis

This comprehensive survey of the work of the Swiss-born modern master Alberto Giacometti offers a fresh and incisive account of his entire creative output. Published on the occasion of Giacometti’s first major museum presentation in the U.S. in over a decade, the volume brings together nearly 200 sculptures, paintings and drawings to trace the artist’s wide-ranging and hugely 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, which preceded his shift to figuration, while also highlighting his remarkable talents as a draftsman and painter alongside his sculptural oeuvre. Of particular focus is Giacometti’s studio practice, which is examined through rarely seen plaster sculptures that highlight the artist’s working process, in addition to ephemera and historical photographs documenting his relationship with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum – which hosted the artist’s first U.S. exhibition, in 1955 – and with New York City.

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Review:

Giacometti's willful distortions transcend eccentricity and artifice.--Lance Esplund "Wall Street Journal "

When all of us are trailed by inescapable terabytes of data, we can almost envy Giacometti's slender bronze wraiths: stripped to the bone but still human, stripped of their names but still free.--Jason Farago "New York Times "

This modern artist takes us back in time as much as he shows a way ahead.--David D'Arcy "The Observer "

The Swiss master of the skinny sublime is the subject of a majestic, exhuasting retropective.--Peter Schjeldahl "The New Yorker "

A terrific selection of paintings and drawings...whose lyricism is as suprising as birds escaping a magician's tophat.--Peter Schjeldahl "The New Yorker "

About this edition

• Publisher: Guggenheim Museum Publications
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0892075384
• ISBN 13: 9780892075386
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 160
• Editor: Megan Fontanella, Karole P. B. Vail