Giacometti: A BIOGRAPHY OF HIS WORK - Softcover

Yves Bonnefoy

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9782080106162: Giacometti: A BIOGRAPHY OF HIS WORK

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ISBN 10: 2080106163 ISBN 13: 9782080106162

Publisher: Flammarion, 2001

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Yves Bonnefoy examines the entire range of Alberto Giacomettis creative production sculpture, painting, drawing, and lithographsin this classic, singular study of the Swiss sculptor. By focusing on the works rather than on the details of the artists life, and by relying on the evidence of Giacomettis important writings and statements, the authora poet, essayist, and friend of the artistprovides a wealth of interpretations of Giacomettis drawings, canvases, and sculptures. Bonnefoys eloquent and incisive text traces Giacomettis artistic developmentfrom his experience with surrealism, to his return to figurative sculpture, to the period of his monumental Walking Man series.The superbly designed and copiously illustrated volume is further enriched with archival photographs of Giacomettis studios and five decades of artistic life in Paris.

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Born in Tours in 1923, Yves Bonnefoy graduated in history of science and philosophy. He is first and foremost, however, a writer, and has devoted himself primarily to the analysis of poetry and art. He published his first volume of poems, Du Mouvement et de l'immobilit� de Douve, in 1953. He has also written numerous essays, including Rome 1630, L'Improbable, L'Arri�re-pays and Entretiens su la po�sie, and has translated Shakespeare and Yeats into French. Many of his poetic works have been translated into English (In the Shadow's Light, 1990; New and Selected Poems, 1996) along with a number of his essays (The Act and the Place of Poetry, 1989; The Lure and Truth of Painting, 1995), all published by the University of Chicago Press. He was awarded the Prix Montaigne in 1978 and the Bennett Award in New York in 1988. He has been invited to teach at numerous American universities, among them Yale, Princeton, the University of California and City University, New York. He was elected in 1981 to a Chair of Comparative Poetry at the Coll�ge de France, and is a doctor honoris causa at various universities, including the University of Chicago.

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