Giacometti : critical essays / edited by Peter Read and Julia Kelly.
Published / Created:
Aldershot, Hants, England ; Ashgate, 2009.Burlington, VT : Ashgate, 2009.
Physical Description:
xiv, 240 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Reference Library
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Acknowledgements -- List of figures -- List of contributors -- Introduction / by Peter Read -- 1. From "Vue d'atelier" to "Vie d'atelier" : 46 rue Hippolyte-Maindron and the beginnings of Giacometti / Jon Wood -- 2. Giacometti's objects : poetry, childhood,and the neurotic theatre of projection / Michael Stone-Richards -- 3. Giacometti's break with surrealism : abstraction, Hegelianism, and the communicating vase / Robin Spencer -- 4. Giacometti and the Kauffmann tomb / Casimiro Di Crescenzo -- 5. Giacometti's Geneva period (1941-1945) : the birth of new sculpture / Thierry Dufrêne -- 6. Giacometti and the basis of sculpture / Alex Potts -- 7. Alberto Giacometti, Michel Leiris, and the myths of existentialism / Julia Kelly -- 8. From spectre to sceptre : Giacometti's sculpture in the writing of Francis Ponge / Peter Read -- 9. "An unknown country" : Isaku Yanaihara's Giacometti diaries / Akihiko Takeda -- 10. Giacometti in Fez / Sarah Wilson -- Select bibliography.
Subject Terms:
Giacometti, Alberto, 1901-1966 -- Criticism and interpretation.