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Alberto Giacometti Hardcover – January 1, 2001

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Today, 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 twentieth century. This centennial volume both celebrates his achievement and reexamines his work, and thus contributes to a more focused concentration on the art itself
The importance of reassessing Giacometti's work resides not only in each new generation finding a somewhat different artist than its forebears, but also in that each fresh look tends to impede the spread of myths and generalizations that shield us from the complexities of a great artist's oeuvre. This publication is meant to extend popular and critical understanding of Giacometti's achievement and to return the reader to the center of Giacometti's work, where new insights can only be revealed by the objects themselves.
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    January 1, 2001
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    9.5 x 1.25 x 11.75 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0810962209
  7. ISBN-13
    978-0810962200
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Alberto Giacometti, the elegant catalog for a major exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, seeks to counter overly literary or psychological interpretations of an artist who has long been viewed as a poster boy for existentialism. The atmospheric black-and-white halftones and color plates are organized in closely interrelated, chronological groups to support texts by several experts, including Christian Klemm, curator of the Alberto Giacometti Foundation. By focusing on the work itself--which includes paintings and drawings as well as the famously slender, elongated sculptures--the authors emphasize his exquisitely calibrated response to the roles played by perception and memory. In the portraits, for example, networks of fine lines dematerialize a sitter's face yet preserve her essence. Anne Umland's intriguing discussion of the roles of photography and the fetish in Giacometti's surrealist-era sculpture is one of the many pleasures of this book. --Cathy Curtis

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Giacometti is best known for the instantly recognizable sculpture of his mature period, his elongated, wraithlike figures, but these comprise only a small percentage of his complete oeuvre. This lavishly illustrated retrospective volume includes a large selection of overlooked paintings and drawings and evidence of the artist's early involvement with the surrealists in Paris, an interlude that often goes unnoticed. Klemm and his contributors present serviceable essays that examine how Giacometti's interest in portraiture, a form considered too representative, got him excommunicated from the surrealist cabal; the Freudian analysis of surrealism; and, in one of the most engaging discussions, Giacometti's relationship to phenomenology and existentialism. The chronology and brief discussion of periods in Giacometti's life and work are quite effective, perfectly complementing the comprehensive illustrations. Regina Schroeder
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Abrams (January 1, 2001)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 296 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0810962209
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0810962200
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 9.5 x 1.25 x 11.75 inches
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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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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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5.0 out of 5 stars It's a beautiful book, could not wait to receive it!
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book for Giacometti lovers
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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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5.0 out of 5 stars Great Book for Giacometti lovers
Reviewed in the United States on October 27, 2021
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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5.0 out of 5 stars Giacometti
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A necessary addition to my library.
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James Lourie
5.0 out of 5 stars Drawings and Paintings
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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
5.0 out of 5 stars 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
5.0 out of 5 stars 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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