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Alberto Giacometti (, US also , Italian: [alˈbɛrto dʒakoˈmetti]; 10 October 1901 – 11 January 1966) was a Swiss sculptor, painter, draftsman and printmaker. Beginning in 1922, he lived and worked mainly in Paris but regularly visited his hometown Borgonovo to see his family and work on his art. Giacometti was one of the most important sculptors of the 20th century. His work was particularly influenced by artistic styles such as Cubism and Surrealism. Philosophical questions about the human condition, as well as existential and phenomenological debates played a significant role in his work. Around 1935 he gave up on his Surrealist influences to pursue a more deepened analysis of figurative compositions. Giacometti wrote texts for periodicals and exhibition catalogues and recorded his thoughts and memories in notebooks and diaries. His critical nature led to self-doubt about his own work and his self-perceived inability to do justice to his own artistic vision. His insecurities nevertheless remained a powerful motivating artistic force throughout his entire life. Between 1938 and 1944 Giacometti's sculptures had a maximum height of seven centimeters (2.75 inches). Their small size reflected the actual distance between the artist's position and his model. In this context he self-critically stated: "But wanting to create from memory what I had seen, to my terror the sculptures became smaller and smaller". After World War II, Giacometti created his most famous sculptures: his extremely tall and slender figurines. These sculptures were subject to his individual viewing experience—between an imaginary yet real, a tangible yet inaccessible space. In Giacometti's whole body of work, his painting constitutes only a small part. After 1957, however, his figurative paintings were equally as present as his sculptures. The almost monochrome paintings of his late work do not refer to any other artistic styles of modernity. Early life Giacometti was born in Borgonovo, Switzerland, the eldest of four children of Giovanni Giacometti, a well-known post-Impressionist painter, and Annetta Giacometti-Stampa. He was a descendant of Protestant refugees escaping the inquisition. Coming from an artistic background, he was interested in art from an early age and was encouraged by his father and godfather. Alberto attended the Geneva School of Fine Arts. His brothers Diego (1902–1985) and Bruno (1907–2012) would go on to become artists and architects as well. Additionally, his cousin Zaccaria Giacometti, later professor of constitutional law and chancellor of the University of Zurich, grew up together with them, having been orphaned at the age of 12 in 1905. Career In 1922, he moved to Paris to study under the sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, an associate of Rodin. It was there that Giacometti experimented with Cubism and Surrealism and came to be regarded as one of the leading Surrealist sculptors. Among his associates were Miró, Max Ernst, Picasso, Bror Hjorth, and Balthus. Between 1936 and 1940, Giacometti concentrated his sculpting on the human head, focusing on the sitter's gaze. He preferred models he was close to—his sister and the artist Isabel Rawsthorne (then known as Isabel Delmer). This was followed by a phase in which his statues of Isabel became stretched out; her limbs elongated. Obsessed with creating his sculptures exactly as he envisioned through his unique view of reality, he often carved until they were as thin as nails and reduced to the size of a pack of cigarettes, much to his consternation. A friend of his once said that if Giacometti decided to sculpt you, "he would make your head look like the blade of a knife". During World War II, Giacometti took refuge in Switzerland. There, in 1946, he met Annette Arm, a secretary for the Red Cross. They married in 1949. After his marriage his tiny sculptures became larger, but the larger they grew, the thinner they became. For the remainder of Giacometti's life, Annette was his main female model. His paintings underwent a parallel procedure. The figures appear isolated and severely attenuated, as the result of continuous reworking. He frequently revisited his subjects: one of his favourite models was his younger brother Diego, with whom he shared his studio in Paris. Later years In 1958 Giacometti was asked to create a monumental sculpture for the Chase Manhattan Bank building in New York, which was beginning construction. Although he had for many years "harbored an ambition to create work for a public square", he "had never set foot in New York, and knew nothing about life in a rapidly evolving metropolis. Nor had he ever laid eyes on an actual skyscraper", according to his biographer James Lord. Giacometti's work on the project resulted in the four figures of standing women—his largest sculptures—entitled Grande femme debout I through IV (1960). The commission was never completed, however, because Giacometti was unsatisfied by the relationship between the sculpture and the site, and abandoned the project. In 1962, Giacometti was awarded the grand prize for sculpture at the Venice Biennale, and the award brought with it worldwide fame. Even when he had achieved popularity and his work was in demand, he still reworked models, often destroying them or setting them aside to be returned to years later. The prints produced by Giacometti are often overlooked but the catalogue raisonné, Giacometti – The Complete Graphics and 15 Drawings by Herbert Lust (Tudor 1970), comments on their impact and gives details of the number of copies of each print. Some of his most important images were in editions of only 30 and many were described as rare in 1970. In his later years Giacometti's works were shown in a number of large exhibitions throughout Europe. Riding a wave of international popularity, and despite his declining health, he traveled to the United States in 1965 for an exhibition of his works at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. As his last work he prepared the text for the book Paris sans fin, a sequence of 150 lithographs containing memories of all the places where he had lived. Death Giacometti died in 1966 of heart disease (pericarditis) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease at the Kantonsspital in Chur, Switzerland. His body was returned to his birthplace in Borgonovo, where he was interred close to his parents. With no children, Annette Giacometti became the sole holder of his property rights. She worked to collect a full listing of authenticated works by her late husband, gathering documentation on the location and manufacture of his works and working to fight the rising number of counterfeited works. When she died in 1993, the Fondation Giacometti was set up by the French state. In May 2007 the executor of his widow's estate, former French foreign minister Roland Dumas, was convicted of illegally selling Giacometti's works to a top auctioneer, Jacques Tajan, who was also convicted. Both were ordered to pay €850,.... Discover the Giacometti popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Giacometti books.
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Michel Giacometti
José Augusto Macedo do CoutoTranscrições minhas de alguns textos e algumas fotos da Filmografia completa de Michel Giacometti, editada pela TRADISOM, em 12 volumes, em 2010.
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Retrato de Giacometti
James LordEl relato de la amistad entre Giacometti y Majes Lord llevado al cine por Stanley Tucci. Final Portrait El arte de la amistad James Lord llegó a París en 1945 y pronto entró en c...
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Um retrato de Giacometti
James LordDepoimento pessoal de um escritor (James Lord) descrevendo as 18 tardes que serviu de modelo ao renomado artista visual Alberto Giacometti. Ao se tornar frequentador assíduo do ate...
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The Criminal Child
Jean Genet, Charlotte Mandell & Jeffrey ZuckermanThe Criminal Child offers the first English translation of a key early work by Jean Genet. In 1949, in the midst of a national debate about improving the French reformschool s...
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Alberto Giacometti
Catherine Grenier«Sorride. E tutta la pelle grinzosa del suo viso si mette a ridere. In uno strano modo. Non solo gli occhi ridono, ma anche la fronte. Tutta la sua persona ha il colore grigio del ...
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Alberto Giacometti
Timothy MathewsAlberto Giacometti's attenuated figures of the human form are among the most significant artistic images of the twentieth century. JeanPaul Sartre and Andre Breton are just two...
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The Colossal
Peter MasonPeter Mason takes a bold, multidisciplinary approach in this account of the idea of the colossal in culture. He gathers instances of the colossal throughout historyincluding the ob...
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My Queer War
James LordA powerful story of sexual awakening during the Second World War, My Queer War, from the noted memoirist and critic James Lord tells the story of a young man's exposure to the terr...
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Schrottmetall
Herbert SchulteSCHROTTMETALL oder: "Das perfekte Verbrechen". Ein Fass unfasslicher Geschichten um »Giacomettis im Kofferraum« (DER SPIEGEL), um einen Reichsgrafen, um die öffentliche Ve...
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About Looking
John BergerAs a novelist, art critic, and cultural historian, Booker Prizewinning author John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence and arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle, po...
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Le testament de Nicolas Flamel
Christian DoumergueIl y a deux Histoires : l’Histoire officielle, menteuse, qu’on enseigne... puis l’Histoire secrète, où sont les véritables causes des événements... » Et si derrière l’apparence des...
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My Amazing Dad
Ezekiel Kwaymullina & Tom JellettThis dad is not like other dads. He is not good at:Mowing the lawn,Getting his children to school on time,Baking cakes,Fixing a leaky faucet, orRemembering bed timeBut, he is good ...
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Mythic Giacometti
James LordThe Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (190166) was arguably the greatest sculptor of the twentieth century. He was alsoas James Lord persuasively argued in Giacometti: A Biographya h...
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Camera straniera
Marco BelpolitiAlberto Giacometti è uno dei principali artisti del Novecento e le sue opere hanno raggiunto le vette delle quotazioni internazionali. I temi del suo lavoro sono molteplici e le mo...
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Giacometti
James LordThe work of one of the towering creative spirits of the century, Alberto Giacometti's visionary sculptures and paintings from a testament to the artist's intriguing life story. Fro...
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Francis Bacon in Your Blood
Michael PeppiattIt is a story I have been wanting to write for a long time, telling it as it really was before that whole world that I shared with Francis vanishes... Michael Peppiatt met Francis...
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Giacometti hinkt
Isolde SchaadGiacometti? Das ist doch der mit den baumlangen Elendsgestalten, dem die Kunstwelt weltweit zu Füssen liegt? Bloss nicht der Student Luis K., der seine liebe Mühe damit hat. Der So...
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Giacometti in Paris
Michael PeppiattTHE TIMES AND WATERSTONES BEST ART BOOK OF 2023 'Marvellous . . . intimate and insightful . . . reads like a novel by Samuel Beckett' Paul Theroux A portrait of one of the ...
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Seitensprungkind
Regula Brühwiler-GiacomettiEin Buch, das anderen helfen kann, sich besser zu verstehen. Regula BrühwilerGiacometti wurde im Alter von zwei Monaten adoptiert. Die Adoption wurde dem Kind nie verheimlicht, ab...
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Giacometti
Gérard-Georges LemaireeDossier è una nuova collana di Art e Dossier. Un artista da leggere, un movimento da conoscere come un racconto, una raccolta di saggi agile, portatile e accessibile. Un dossier i...
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LONDON 2012 P.G. Fotografando con micro 43 Olympus e obiettivi MF
Manuel Giacometti ShamirsMi chiamo Manuel Giacometti, in arte mi firmo shamirs e questa è parte della storia di questa mia avventura a London 2012... “Usare fotocamere mirrorless per catturare immagini di ...
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Paris Without End
Jed PerlThis brilliant blend of history, biography, and criticism explores the seminal figures of twentiethcentury French artMatisse, Picasso, Derain, Léger, Dufy, Braque, Giacometti, Balt...
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Alberto Giacometti e Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Lorella ScaccoIl libro analizza in modo approfondito le opere di Alberto Giacometti, uno dei protagonisti della storia dell'arte del XX secolo, accostandole al pensiero di un importante filosofo...
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Giacometti
Iain BrodieIn this booklet, rate, ratio, and proportion drive the use of measurement to make sculptures. The culminating tasks are making wireframe sculptures of ourselves using our own propo...
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Nachmittage
Ferdinand von SchirachNach »Kaffee und Zigaretten« der neue Erzählband von Ferdinand von Schirach.Ferdinand von Schirach erzählt von milden Frühsommermorgen, verregneten Nachmittagen und schwarzen Nächt...