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One of the great masters of 20th-century art, the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti captured the existential loneliness of modern humanity with his spindly, attenuated figures whose life-like gazes pierce the vastness of space. Uniting more than 250 sculptures, paintings, drawings and graphic works, this extensive monograph is an exemplary overview of his oeuvre.
The book underscores the continuity between the two remarkable bodies of work that characterize his career: the pre-1935 works, which included the finest of all Surrealist sculptures, and the post-war masterpieces. As a result of a profound artistic crisis that began in 1934, when Giacometti returned to working from the model and thus broke with the Surrealists, the artist began tackling the problem of situating figures in space in an entirely new way.
Painting played a key role in the solutions that Giacometti found to this problem, and the discussion here of the relationship between his two- and three-dimensional works reveals him to have been as great a painter as he was a sculptor.
Contributions by several notable art historians address contemporary research issues and offer a comprehensive record of Giacometti's life and work. Among the many photographs of the artist and his circle are images by such notable photographers as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ugo Mulas and Man Ray.
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Art, Art collections, Copying, Criticism and interpretation, Exhibitions, Philosophy, Portraits, Private collections, Swiss Prints, Art Forms, Treatments & Subjects, Bildband, Aufsatzsammlung, Artists' preparatory studies, Sculpture, Musée national d'art moderne (France), Critique et interprétation, Sculptors, Giacometti, alberto, 1901-1966, Beeldende kunsten, Expositions, Prints, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne/Centre de création industrielle (France), Catalogues d'exposition, Nationalgalerie Berlin, Berlin, Staatsgalerie Stuutgart, StuttgartPeople
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Alberto Giacometti: drawings and prints.
2003, Muzeʼon Tel Aviv le-omanut
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Alberto Giacometti: Drawings and Prints (Vol. 2)
2002, Tel Aviv Museum of Art
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Alberto Giacometti: le dessin à l'œuvre
2001, Gallimard/Centre Pompidou
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Alberto Giacometti: Le Dessin a L'Oeuvre
January 31, 2001, Centre Georges Pompidou Service Commercial,France
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Alberto Giacometti: druckgraphische Werke aus der Sammlung Klewan : Kunstverein Ulm, 11. Februar bis 25. März 2001, Museum Baviera Zürich, 14. Juni bis 26. Juli 2001
2001, Kunstverein Ulm
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Le dessin à l'oeuvre. Dessins de Giacometti : catalogue de l'exposition au Centre Pompidou du 24 janvier au 9 avril 2001
February 7, 2001, Gallimard - Centre Georges Pompidou
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Alberto Giacometti: Porträts : Kunsthaus Apolda Avantgarde, Museum Kurhaus Kleve
2001, Museum Kurhaus Kleve
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Alberto Giacometti: dialoghi con l'arte : Museo d'arte Mendrisio
2000, Museo d'arte
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Alberto Giacometti: la collection du Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne
1999, Centre Georges Pompidou, Réunion des Musées nationaux
in French
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Alberto Giacometti: disegni, sculture e opere grafiche
1999, Mazzotta
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Alberto Giacometti: Zeichnungen, druckgrafische Unikate und Ergänzungen zum Werkverzeichnis der Druckgrafik von Lust : 17. April-21. Juni 1997, Galerie Klewan, München
1997, Die Galerie
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Alberto Giacometti: bearbeitet von Rudolf Koella, mit Beiträgen von Rudolf Koella, Wieland Schmied und Jean-Louis Prat.
1997, Hirmer
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Alberto Giacometti: Zeichnungen, 22. November 1994-21. Januar 1995
1995, Galerie Klewan
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Alberto Giacometti: sculpture, paintings, drawings
1994, Prestel, Distributed in the USA and Canada by te Neues Pub. Co.
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Alberto Giacometti: skulpturer, målningar, teckningar.
1994, Malmö Konsthall
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Alberto Giacometti: sculptures, peintures, dessins : Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, 30 novembre 1991-15 mars 1992.
1991, Le Musée
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Alberto Giacometti: sculptures, peintures, dessins.
1991, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
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Alberto Giacometti: Skulpturen, Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Graphik
1987, Prestel-Verlag
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Alberto Giacometti: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, 16 mai-2 novembre 1986
1986, La Fondation
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Alberto Giacometti: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, 16 mai-2 novembre 1986
1986, Fondation Pierre Gianadda
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Alberto Giacometti: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, Martigny, 16 mai-2 novembre 1986
1986, La Fondation
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Alberto Giacometti: retour à la figuration : 1933-1947.
1986, Centre Georges Pompidou
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Alberto Giacometti: dessins : Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, (April-May)1985
1985, The Gallery
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Alberto Giacometti: Musée d'art et d'industrie, Saint-Etienne, été 1981.
1981, Le Musée
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Alberto Giacometti: ein Klassiker der Moderne, 1901-1966 : Skulpturen, Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Bücher
1978, Bündner Kunstmuseum
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Alberto Giacometti: [exposition], Fondation Maeght, 8 juillet-30 septembre 1978.
1978, Fondation Maeght
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Alberto Giacometti: sculptor and draftsman; [catalogue of] an exhibition organized by The American Federation of Arts
1977, American Federation of Arts
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Alberto Giacometti: Plastiken, Gemälde, Zeichnungen
1977, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum der Stadt Duisburg
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Alberto Giacometti: dessins : Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, [6 novembre] 1975-[janvier 1976]
1975, Galerie Claude Bernard
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Alberto Giacometti: dessins [catalogue d'une exposition] Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, 1975
1975, Galerie Claude Bernard
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Alberto Giacometti: a retrospective exhibition.
1974, Praeger, in association with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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Alberto Giacometti: the Milton D. Ratner Family Collection : [catalog of exhibition] The Art Institute of Chicago, 1974-75.
1974, The Institute
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Alberto Giacometti: Orangerie des Tuileries, 15 octobre 1969-12 janvier 1970.
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Alberto Giacometti.: Orangerie des Tuileries, 24 octobre 1969-12 janvier 1970. [Catalogue]
1969, Ministère d'État, Affaires culturelles, Réunion des musées nationaux
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Alberto Giacometti: sculpture, paintings, drawings, 1913-65.
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Alberto Giacometti.: With an introd. by Peter Selz and an autobiographical statement by the artist.
1965, Museum of Modern Art, in collaboration with The Art Institute of Chicago [and others
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Alberto Giacometti: a loan exhibition, February 2-March 4, 1963
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Alberto Giacometti: exhibition catalogue of!sculpture, paintings, drawings, 4 June-9 July, 1955.
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Alberto Giacometti : la collection du Centre Georges Pompidou, Musée national d'art moderne. [Exposition organisée dans le cadre de la programmation hors les murs]
Publish date unknown, Centre Georges Pompidou
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Edition Notes
Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-217) and index.
[Some articles] translated from the German.
"The essays by Reinhold Hohl, Dieter Honisch, Lucius Grisebach and Karin von Maur originally appeared in Alberto Giacometti: Skulpturen, Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Graphik, published in 1987 in conjunction with the exhibition of that name held at the Nationalgalerie, Berlin (West), and the Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart. They have been partly revised for the present publication"--T.p. verso.
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