Alberto Giacometti: Myth, Magic, and the Man - Hardcover

Wilson, Laurie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0300090374 ISBN 13: 9780300090376

Publisher: Yale University Press, 2003

Synopsis

Alberto Giacometti, one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, was also one of the most enigmatic. In this major new interpretation of Giacometti and his work, art historian and psychoanalyst Laurie Wilson demonstrates how the artist’s secret beliefs and emotional scars are reflected in his evocative sculpture, drawings, and paintings.

Wilson’s Giacometti was an extremely imaginative child who entwined fantasy and real-life experiences. As he matured, the artist combined fact and fancy into evolving myths, part conscious and part unconscious. Drawing on biographical data uncovered during a decade of research, Wilson reconstructs traumatic events and issues in Giacometti’s life?including family births and deaths in early childhood, world wars and their aftermath, and his intense and ambivalent relationship with his parents?and examines their profound effects on his artistic evolution. These startling new interpretations will forever change the way we understand both the man and his work.

About this title

About the Author:

Laurie Wilson, professor emerita of art therapy at New York University, is an independent art historian and faculty member at the New York University Psychoanalytic Institute.

About this edition

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0300090374
• ISBN 13: 9780300090376
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 384