Giacometti - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 8489439079 ISBN 13: 9788489439078

Yves Bonnefoy examines the entire range of Alberto Giacometti's creative production—sculpture, painting, drawing, and lithographs—in this classic, singular study of the Swiss sculptor. By focusing on the works rather than on the details of the artist's life, and by relying on the evidence of Giacometti's important writings and statements, the author—a poet, essayist, and friend of the artist—provides a wealth of interpretations of Giacometti's drawings, canvases, and sculptures.Bonnefoy's eloquent and incisive text traces Giacometti's artistic development—from his experience with surrealism, to his return to figurative sculpture, and then to the period of his monumental Walking Man series. The superbly designed and copiously illustrated volume is further enriched with archival photographs of Giacometti's studios and five decades of his artistic life in Paris. Accompanied by an extensive biographical chronology and bibliography, and illustrated with nearly 600 works and documents, the revised edition of this oversized, exquisitely-produced monograph will continue to be the essential, authoritative reference on this artist

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About the Author:

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. In 1953, he published his first volume of poems, Du Mouvement et de l'immobilite de Douve, and he has just published his sixth volume, Ebut et fin de la neige. He has also written numerous essays, including Rome 1630, L'Improbable, l'Arriere-Pays, Entretiens sur la poesie, and has translated Shakespeare and Yeats into French. Many of his poetic works have been translated into English (his most recent is In the Shadow's Light, University of Chicago Press, 1990) along with a number of his essays ("The Act and the Place of Poetry', 'The Lure and Truth of Painting'). 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 College de France. He is a doctor honoris causa at various universities, including the University of Chicago.

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