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Giacometti

Fontanella, Megan M., editor, Vail, Karole P. B., editor, Fletcher, Valerie J. City places, city spaces, Grenier, Catherine. Between Surrealism and abstraction, Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, organizer, Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti, organizer, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, host institution

Overview

This comprehensive survey of the work of the Swiss-born modern master Alberto Giacometti offers a fresh and incisive account of his creative output. Published on the occasion of Giacometti?s first major museum presentation in the US in over a decade, the volume brings together nearly 200 sculptures, paintings and drawings to trace the artist?s wide-ranging and innovative engagement with the human form across various mediums. While Giacometti may be best known for his distinct figurative sculptures that emerged after World War II, including a series of elongated standing women, striding men and expressive busts, this volume devotes equal attention to the artist?s early and midcareer development. It explores his lesser-known engagement with Cubism and Surrealism as well as African, Oceanic and Cycladic art, while also highlighting his remarkable talents as a draftsman and painter alongside his sculptural oeuvre. Of particular focus is Giacometti?s studio practice, in addition to historical photographs documenting his relationship with the Guggenheim Museum - which hosted the artist?s first US museum exhibition, in 1955 - and with New York City.00Exhibition: Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA (8.6. - 12.9.2018).

• Publisher: Guggenheim Museum Publications
• Subject: Giacometti, Alberto, 1901-1966 Exhibitions. / Giacometti, Alberto, 1901-1966. / ART / Individual Artist.
• ISBN: 9780892075386, 0892075384

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
N6853.G5 A4 2018	1	BOOK	ARTS