Giacometti PortraitLord, James
9780805041637
Looking at Giacometti
David Sylvester
ISBN 10: 080504163X / 0-8050-4163-X
ISBN 13: 9780805041637
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Softcover
ISBN 13: 9780805041637
Publisher: Henry Holt & Co
Publication Date: 1997
Binding: Softcover
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Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) was one of the century's greatest sculptors and painters. Famous in the 1930s for his surrealist sculptures, he suddenly isolated himself and began to make and remake various pieces and paintings, wrestling with complex problems of perception and representation. By the mid-1950s he had established his reputation as one of the most startlingly original artists of the 20th century. This 40-year critique by David Sylvester is a profound response to Giacometti's art. 32 pp b&w photos by Patricia Matisse.
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"A remarkably intimate study of the artist's thought and of his ambitions: a portrait in words by the sitter as he looks back at the portrait painter."
Stuart Hampshire, New York Review of Books
Review:"The story of Giacometti's stubborn loyalty to appearances has often been told. What makes Sylvester's version so entrancing is that he lets his account of the artist's studio method modulate into something more....Art criticism turns into a kind of memoir, as the focus shifts from art to the artist's social and intellectual style--his way of being."
Carter Ratcliff, Art in America, January 1997
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