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| Author | : David Sylvester |
| Publisher | : Holt Paperbacks |
| Total Pages | : 176 |
| Release | : 1997-04-15 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780805041637 |
Winner of a Venice Bienniale Golden Lion Award, Looking at Giacometti is a compelling mixture of biography and criticism, including an extraordinary interview with Giacometti. Written over a period of forty years, Looking at Giacometti is a profound response to the art of one of modernism’s greatest sculptors. It takes students from world-renowned art critic David Sylvester’s first visits to Giacometti’s studio in the late 1940s to the author’s prolonged sitting for the artist’s portrait of him in the 1960 and reflections on his complete oeuvre after Giacometti’s death. A compelling mixture of biography and criticism, and including a sixteen-page insert of black and white photographs by Patricia Matisse, this book sheds new light on twentieth-century art and thought.
| Author | : James Lord |
| Publisher | : Macmillan |
| Total Pages | : 132 |
| Release | : 1980-07 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9780374515737 |
When we look at a painting hanging on an art gallery wall, we see only what the artist has chosen to disclose--the finished work of art. What remains mysterious is the process of creation itself--the making of the work of art. Everyone who has looked at paintings has wondered about this, and numerous efforts have been made to discover and depict the creative method of important artists. A Giacometti Portrait is a picture of one of the century's greatest artists at work. James Lord sat for eighteen days while his friend Alberto Giamcometti did his portrait in oil. The artist painted, and the model recorded the sittings and took photographs of the work in its various stages. What emerged was an illumination of what it is to be an artist and what it was to be Giacometti--a portrait in prose of the man and his art. A work of great literary distinction, A Giacometti Portrait is, above all, a subtle and important evocation of a great artist.
| Author | : David Sylvester |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 284 |
| Release | : 1994 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
Written by the author of Henry Moore, Interviews with Francis Banco and Rene Magritte, this book is the fruit of a long collaboration as sitter, friend, critic and exhibition curator with Alberto Giacometti. It is a response to Giacometti's art, with observations on his work in progress, and reflections on his completed oeuvre, after his death in 1966.
| Author | : Alberto Giacometti |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2010 |
| Genre | : Sculptors |
| ISBN | : 9783775727150 |
"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.
| Author | : Angel González |
| Publisher | : Ediciones Polígrafa S.A. |
| Total Pages | : 170 |
| Release | : 2006 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : |
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.
| Author | : William Maxwell |
| Publisher | : Vintage |
| Total Pages | : 145 |
| Release | : 2011-04-27 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 030778987X |
In this magically evocative novel, William Maxwell explores the enigmatic gravity of the past, which compels us to keep explaining it even as it makes liars out of us every time we try. On a winter morning in the 1920s, a shot rings out on a farm in rural Illinois. A man named Lloyd Wilson has been killed. And the tenuous friendship between two lonely teenagers—one privileged yet neglected, the other a troubled farm boy—has been shattered. Fifty years later, one of those boys—now a grown man—tries to reconstruct the events that led up to the murder. In doing so, he is inevitably drawn back to his lost friend Cletus, who has the misfortune of being the son of Wilson's killer and who in the months before witnessed things that Maxwell's narrator can only guess at. Out of memory and imagination, the surmises of children and the destructive passions of their parents, Maxwell creates a luminous American classic of youth and loss.
| Author | : Keith Aspley |
| Publisher | : Rodopi |
| Total Pages | : 302 |
| Release | : 2000 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9789042004788 |
Collection of essays originally presented as papers at a conference at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, in September of 1996.
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| Publisher | : Louisiana Museum of Modern Art |
| Total Pages | : 188 |
| Release | : 2020-01-21 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 9788793659216 |
Today's leading poets and writers--from Anne Carson to Roxane Gay--respond to modern and contemporary masterpieces In this book, 26 internationally renowned poets, writers and essayists such as Anne Carson, Richard Ford, Roxane Gay, Colm Toíbín, Eileen Myles, Sjón, Gunnhild Øyehaug, Anne Waldman and Claudia Rankine engage in dialogue with artworks from the collection of the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art by artists as different as Louise Bourgeois, Francis Bacon, Alberto Giacometti, Alicja Kwade, Andy Warhol, Julie Mehretu, Joseph Beuys, Tacita Dean, Yayoi Kusama and Francesca Woodman. The writers deploy their poetic gaze in texts that open our eyes to the works. By way of a wide range of literary genres such as poems, essays, memoir and notes, the contributions to the book demonstrate how differently one can experience art.
| Author | : Kurt Ofer |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 192 |
| Release | : 2021-01-12 |
| Genre | : Architectural drawing |
| ISBN | : 9781911339342 |
Architect Kurt Ofer has formulated an utterly unique way of drawing, which gives a superior understanding of form. By following the method of "transparent drawing," you ignore an object's opacity and see beyond its surface, allowing you to draw it in a very distinct and holistic way.
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| Publisher | : Tate |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018-04-17 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9781849765084 |
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.
