Alberto Giacometti

Toward the Ultimate Figure

Emilie Bouvard, Serena Bucalo, Hugo Daniel , Ann Dumas

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Yale University Press
24 June 2022

Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus; Non-graphic art forms; Individual artists, art monographs; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections

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.

Contributions by: Serena Bucalo, Hugo Daniel, Ann Dumas, Catherine Grenier
Edited by: Emilie Bouvard
Imprint: Yale University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 305mm, Width: 229mm,
ISBN: 9780300263916
ISBN 10: 0300263910
Pages: 240
Publication Date: 24 June 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Emilie Bouvard is director of collections and scientific program at the Fondation Giacometti, Paris.