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Alberto Giacometti Hardcover – July 15, 2002

by Alberto Giacometti (Author), Carolyn Lanchner (Author), Felix Baumann (Editor),

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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.

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296 pages
Language

English
Publisher

The Museum of Modern Art
Publication date

July 15, 2002
ISBN-10

0870703390
ISBN-13

978-0870703393
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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.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ The Museum of Modern Art (July 15, 2002)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 296 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0870703390
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0870703393
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 4.45 pounds

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Megan Fontanella (she/her) is an art historian and curator whose research encompasses late nineteenth- through mid-twentieth-century European and U.S. avant-gardes, with a particular focus on dealer networks and collecting patterns. At the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, she has organized or co-organized over thirty exhibitions for the institution’s constellation of museums in New York, Bilbao, Venice, and previously Berlin. Additionally, she conducts collections research focusing on institutional history and the provenance of artworks. Fontanella graduated from Dartmouth College with a BA in art history modified with history, and received her MA in art history from the Courtauld Institute of Art, London, where she specialized in late 19th-century French art. She is a member of the Board of Advisors at the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth.
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RK

It's a beautiful book, could not wait to receive it!

Reviewed in the United States on March 9, 2022

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I saw this exhibition at Guggenheim Museum in NY years ago. It was an amazing exhibition with rare works in the show. And this book is published beautifully. Highly recommend it.!

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liela

Great Book for Giacometti lovers

Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2021

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I've been eyeing this book, I'm glad I got it.
This book has a great selection of both sculpturs and paintings.
There is alot of mystery and obsession in his works which is fascinating to look at.

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William T. McCue

Giacometti

Reviewed in the United States on August 4, 2018

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A necessary addition to my library.

Reviewed in the United States on November 7, 2014

Fantastic book

Drawings and Paintings

Reviewed in the United States on November 6, 2007

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In addition to his familiar sculptures, this book has quite a few drawings and paintings of the master. What a painter!

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Reich Claude

A very good survey

Reviewed in the United States on April 14, 2007

Surprisingly enough, there are comparatively few quality publications on Giacometti, one of the greatest artists of the XXth century. This catalogue for an exhibition that was held at the Moma and at the Kunsthaus Zurich, draws on the extensive Giacometti holdings of both museums for a comprehensive survey of his career. From his surrealist period to his trademark elongated figures, from his numerous drawings which served as studies both for his sculptures and his paintings, to his lesser-known oils, the whole career and output of the artist is very well illustrated in a book that I highly recommend.

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Paul D. Harvill

Giacometti: Alienation and estrangement

Reviewed in the United States on March 23, 2004

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Giacometti well expressed the alienation and estrangement of the human condition in his sculpture.

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