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Alberto Giacometti: Space, Figure, Time

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This volume from the Art to Read series makes an outstanding introduction to the life and work of this important artist. Alberto Giacometti was born and raised in Val Bregaglia in Switzerland, but following his studies in Geneva and Rome he lived primarily in Paris. As an artist, Giacometti's earliest affiliations were among the Surrealists, but today his reduced and exposed bronze figures seem much more in sympathy with the Existentialist worldview . Notoriously self-critical, and always paring back the form at hand, Giacometti labored tirelessly to reconcile humanity's outer appearance and inner condition, never arriving at a satisfactory realization: "If I could make a sculpture or a painting in just the way I'd like to, they would have been made long since ," he once lamented. "I don't see my sculpture, I see blackness."

Language: English

Pages: 96

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Release: November 30, 2009

ISBN: 3775723730

ISBN 13: 9783775723732

Alberto Giacometti: Space, Figure, Time

2.7/5 ( ratings)

This volume from the Art to Read series makes an outstanding introduction to the life and work of this important artist. Alberto Giacometti was born and raised in Val Bregaglia in Switzerland, but following his studies in Geneva and Rome he lived primarily in Paris. As an artist, Giacometti's earliest affiliations were among the Surrealists, but today his reduced and exposed bronze figures seem much more in sympathy with the Existentialist worldview . Notoriously self-critical, and always paring back the form at hand, Giacometti labored tirelessly to reconcile humanity's outer appearance and inner condition, never arriving at a satisfactory realization: "If I could make a sculpture or a painting in just the way I'd like to, they would have been made long since ," he once lamented. "I don't see my sculpture, I see blackness."

Language: English

Pages: 96

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Hatje Cantz

Release: November 30, 2009

ISBN: 3775723730

ISBN 13: 9783775723732

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