Author: Emilie Bouvard
Publisher: Cleveland Museum of Art
ISBN: 9780300263916
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A comprehensive survey of the work of the legendary Swiss artist, this book illustrates and examines more than 100 of his sculptures, paintings, drawings, and prints This lavishly illustrated retrospective traces the early and midcareer development of the preeminent Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), examining the emergence of his distinct figural style through works including a series of walking men, elongated standing women, and numerous busts. Rare paintings and drawings from his formative period show the significance of landscape in Giacometti's work, while also revealing the influence of the postimpressionist painters that surrounded his father, the artist Giovanni Giacometti. Other areas of inquiry on which Alberto Giacometti casts new light are his studio practice--amply illustrated with photographs--his obsessive focus on depicting the human head, his collaborations with poets and writers, and his development of the walking man sculpture, thanks to numerous drawings, many of which have never been shown. Original essays by modern art and Giacometti specialists shed new light on era-defining sculptural masterpieces, including the Walking Man, the Nose, and the Chariot, or on key aspects of his work, such as the significance of surrealism, his drawing practice, or the question of space.
Alberto Giacometti
Author: Emilie Bouvard
Publisher: Cleveland Museum of Art
ISBN: 9780300263916
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A comprehensive survey of the work of the legendary Swiss artist, this book illustrates and examines more than 100 of his sculptures, paintings, drawings, and prints This lavishly illustrated retrospective traces the early and midcareer development of the preeminent Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), examining the emergence of his distinct figural style through works including a series of walking men, elongated standing women, and numerous busts. Rare paintings and drawings from his formative period show the significance of landscape in Giacometti's work, while also revealing the influence of the postimpressionist painters that surrounded his father, the artist Giovanni Giacometti. Other areas of inquiry on which Alberto Giacometti casts new light are his studio practice--amply illustrated with photographs--his obsessive focus on depicting the human head, his collaborations with poets and writers, and his development of the walking man sculpture, thanks to numerous drawings, many of which have never been shown. Original essays by modern art and Giacometti specialists shed new light on era-defining sculptural masterpieces, including the Walking Man, the Nose, and the Chariot, or on key aspects of his work, such as the significance of surrealism, his drawing practice, or the question of space.
Publisher: Cleveland Museum of Art
ISBN: 9780300263916
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A comprehensive survey of the work of the legendary Swiss artist, this book illustrates and examines more than 100 of his sculptures, paintings, drawings, and prints This lavishly illustrated retrospective traces the early and midcareer development of the preeminent Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), examining the emergence of his distinct figural style through works including a series of walking men, elongated standing women, and numerous busts. Rare paintings and drawings from his formative period show the significance of landscape in Giacometti's work, while also revealing the influence of the postimpressionist painters that surrounded his father, the artist Giovanni Giacometti. Other areas of inquiry on which Alberto Giacometti casts new light are his studio practice--amply illustrated with photographs--his obsessive focus on depicting the human head, his collaborations with poets and writers, and his development of the walking man sculpture, thanks to numerous drawings, many of which have never been shown. Original essays by modern art and Giacometti specialists shed new light on era-defining sculptural masterpieces, including the Walking Man, the Nose, and the Chariot, or on key aspects of his work, such as the significance of surrealism, his drawing practice, or the question of space.
Alberto Giacometti
Author: Angel González
Publisher: Ediciones Polígrafa S.A.
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Gathered writings from the seminal 20th-century Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti Alberto Giacometti's early Surrealist and Cubist forms, compact volumes inspired by Africa and the Cyclades, eventually led this seminal twentieth-century Swiss artist to acknowledge a formal void that he would spend the balance of his career filling with the human figure. In the mid-1930s, influenced by the terrible social and political changes that were taking place across Europe, Giacometti began to develop heads and nudes in a signature style--they were universally elongated, skeletal, haunting, solitary and above all, transcendent. Giacometti's written testimony and reflections on his change of perspective, and on his artistic ideas and goals, are remarkable for their aptness and poetic quality. In his writings, gathered here, the artist pours out his doubts, his suffering and his creative hopes as very few artists have been capable of doing before or since.
Publisher: Ediciones Polígrafa S.A.
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 170
Book Description
Gathered writings from the seminal 20th-century Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti Alberto Giacometti's early Surrealist and Cubist forms, compact volumes inspired by Africa and the Cyclades, eventually led this seminal twentieth-century Swiss artist to acknowledge a formal void that he would spend the balance of his career filling with the human figure. In the mid-1930s, influenced by the terrible social and political changes that were taking place across Europe, Giacometti began to develop heads and nudes in a signature style--they were universally elongated, skeletal, haunting, solitary and above all, transcendent. Giacometti's written testimony and reflections on his change of perspective, and on his artistic ideas and goals, are remarkable for their aptness and poetic quality. In his writings, gathered here, the artist pours out his doubts, his suffering and his creative hopes as very few artists have been capable of doing before or since.
Tate Introductions: Alberto Giacometti
Author: Lena Fritsch
Publisher: Tate
ISBN: 9781849764834
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Part of the Tate Introductions series, this richly illustrated and accessible book provides an engaging and concise account of Giacometti's work and life. It explores the story of the artist's evolution, from his first sketchbooks and professional works of art through his extraordinary Surrealist compositions, to the emergence of his mature style." --Publisher's decsription.
Publisher: Tate
ISBN: 9781849764834
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Part of the Tate Introductions series, this richly illustrated and accessible book provides an engaging and concise account of Giacometti's work and life. It explores the story of the artist's evolution, from his first sketchbooks and professional works of art through his extraordinary Surrealist compositions, to the emergence of his mature style." --Publisher's decsription.
Alberto Giacometti
Author: Christian Alandete
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH
ISBN: 9783777436487
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Alberto Giacometti forged a singular path within European Modernism, restlessly seeking a new language for sculpture as the double of reality. His quest brought him into close, face-to-face contact with some of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century--including Georges Bataille, Jean Genet, and Samuel Beckett. Tracing how these literary friendships molded the artist's creative development, Alberto Giacometti: Face to Face discovers new continuities among the various strains of modernist thought and develops a fresh approach to Giacometti and his work. This accessible overview of Giacometti's career is illustrated by more than 150 reproductions of his sculptures and paintings as well as excerpts from the literature that shaped his ideas, tracking the evolution of his work from post-cubism through surrealism and into post-war realism.
Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH
ISBN: 9783777436487
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Alberto Giacometti forged a singular path within European Modernism, restlessly seeking a new language for sculpture as the double of reality. His quest brought him into close, face-to-face contact with some of the most influential intellectuals of the twentieth century--including Georges Bataille, Jean Genet, and Samuel Beckett. Tracing how these literary friendships molded the artist's creative development, Alberto Giacometti: Face to Face discovers new continuities among the various strains of modernist thought and develops a fresh approach to Giacometti and his work. This accessible overview of Giacometti's career is illustrated by more than 150 reproductions of his sculptures and paintings as well as excerpts from the literature that shaped his ideas, tracking the evolution of his work from post-cubism through surrealism and into post-war realism.
Giacometti
Author: Yves Bonnefoy
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 2080106163
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Yves Bonnefoy examines the entire range of Alberto Giacomettis creative production sculpture, painting, drawing, and lithographsin this classic, singular study of the Swiss sculptor. By focusing on the works rather than on the details of the artists life, and by relying on the evidence of Giacomettis important writings and statements, the authora poet, essayist, and friend of the artistprovides a wealth of interpretations of Giacomettis drawings, canvases, and sculptures. Bonnefoys eloquent and incisive text traces Giacomettis artistic developmentfrom his experience with surrealism, to his return to figurative sculpture, to the period of his monumental Walking Man series.The superbly designed and copiously illustrated volume is further enriched with archival photographs of Giacomettis studios and five decades of artistic life in Paris.
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
ISBN: 2080106163
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Yves Bonnefoy examines the entire range of Alberto Giacomettis creative production sculpture, painting, drawing, and lithographsin this classic, singular study of the Swiss sculptor. By focusing on the works rather than on the details of the artists life, and by relying on the evidence of Giacomettis important writings and statements, the authora poet, essayist, and friend of the artistprovides a wealth of interpretations of Giacomettis drawings, canvases, and sculptures. Bonnefoys eloquent and incisive text traces Giacomettis artistic developmentfrom his experience with surrealism, to his return to figurative sculpture, to the period of his monumental Walking Man series.The superbly designed and copiously illustrated volume is further enriched with archival photographs of Giacomettis studios and five decades of artistic life in Paris.
Traces of a Friendship
Author: Ernst Scheidegger
Publisher: Scheidegger and Spiess
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Photographs by Ernst Scheidegger of Alberto Giacometti and his art work.
Publisher: Scheidegger and Spiess
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Photographs by Ernst Scheidegger of Alberto Giacometti and his art work.
Alberto Giacometti
Author: Ulf Küster
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
ISBN:
Category : Art, Swiss
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
SCULPTURE. Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) was the son of the Swiss painter Giovanni Giacometti. Born and raised in Val Bregaglia, after 1922 he lived primarily inParis following studies in Geneva and Rome . He created a stir among the Surrealists in the thirties, and was active as a lamp and vase designer. He developed his noted late work, extremely thin bronze figures symbolic of human existence, during and after World War II. This volume from the series Art to Read is an outstanding introduction to the life and work of this important and simultaneously puzzling artist, one who decisively influenced our understanding of sculpture in space.
Publisher: Hatje Cantz
ISBN:
Category : Art, Swiss
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
SCULPTURE. Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) was the son of the Swiss painter Giovanni Giacometti. Born and raised in Val Bregaglia, after 1922 he lived primarily inParis following studies in Geneva and Rome . He created a stir among the Surrealists in the thirties, and was active as a lamp and vase designer. He developed his noted late work, extremely thin bronze figures symbolic of human existence, during and after World War II. This volume from the series Art to Read is an outstanding introduction to the life and work of this important and simultaneously puzzling artist, one who decisively influenced our understanding of sculpture in space.
Alberto Giacometti
Author: Alberto Giacometti
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783775727150
Category : Sculptors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Space does not exist," the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) wrote in 1949. "It has to be created... Every sculpture made on the assumption that space exists is wrong, there is only the illusion of space." This fascinating statement serves as a conceptual underpinning for Hatje Cantz's new appraisal of the artist's mature work. Giacometti's emaciated sculptures have long been seen as symbols of a newly anxious, frail humanity. But more recently, attention has come to focus on the relevance of his work for contemporary considerations of space and time. Alberto Giacometti: The Origin of Space supplies a comprehensive overview of the later works of this lastingly influential artist, presenting 200 color images of sculptures, paintings and drawings.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783775727150
Category : Sculptors
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Space does not exist," the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) wrote in 1949. "It has to be created... Every sculpture made on the assumption that space exists is wrong, there is only the illusion of space." This fascinating statement serves as a conceptual underpinning for Hatje Cantz's new appraisal of the artist's mature work. Giacometti's emaciated sculptures have long been seen as symbols of a newly anxious, frail humanity. But more recently, attention has come to focus on the relevance of his work for contemporary considerations of space and time. Alberto Giacometti: The Origin of Space supplies a comprehensive overview of the later works of this lastingly influential artist, presenting 200 color images of sculptures, paintings and drawings.
Meet the Artist: Alberto Giacometti
Author:
Publisher: Tate
ISBN: 9781849765084
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Meet the Artist: Alberto Giacometti is packed with inspiring art-based activities for budding young artists, who can create interesting portraits, sculptures, and collage landscapes. Starting with a brief introduction to the life of Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), an important Italian sculptor best known for his distinctive elongated figures, the book then offers a series of creative activities that explore prominent themes and ideas in the artist's work. Featuring beautiful reproductions of actual artworks, and illustrated by a leading contemporary illustrator, this book, like all titles in the Meet the Artist series, encourages children to use art as an avenue for exploring ideas and expressing their own experiences.
Publisher: Tate
ISBN: 9781849765084
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Meet the Artist: Alberto Giacometti is packed with inspiring art-based activities for budding young artists, who can create interesting portraits, sculptures, and collage landscapes. Starting with a brief introduction to the life of Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), an important Italian sculptor best known for his distinctive elongated figures, the book then offers a series of creative activities that explore prominent themes and ideas in the artist's work. Featuring beautiful reproductions of actual artworks, and illustrated by a leading contemporary illustrator, this book, like all titles in the Meet the Artist series, encourages children to use art as an avenue for exploring ideas and expressing their own experiences.
Alberto Giacometti
Author: Alberto Giacometti
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Webster J. Duck turns to several animals when he tries to find his mother.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Webster J. Duck turns to several animals when he tries to find his mother.