Abstract | Keywords | Export | Availability | Bookmark

Choose an application

• Reference Manager
• EndNote
• RefWorks (Direct export to RefWorks)

Alberto Giacometti, who was born in the Swiss canton of Graubünden in 1901, was active throughout his career in Paris, where he worked as a painter, sculptor and draftsman until his death in 1966. His affinity with cubism and surrealism, his attraction to the antique and non-western arts, his preference for the human figure make him a very special personality that was not outside the artistic developments of the twentieth century. On the basis of more than one hundred and fifty works, including the most important sculptures, paintings and drawings from his oeuvre, this catalog mainly highlights the crucial and sometimes misunderstood confrontations that characterized Giacometti’s career: the introduction to Constantin Brancusi’s work at the Salon des Tuileries in 1927, where his Spoonwife competed with Vogel in the room of the Romanian sculptor; Egyptian antiquity, a source of inspiration during Giacometti’s entire career; or his friendly and intellectual connection with the writer Jacques Dupin, his first biographer. Numerous photographs of the artist and of his studio place the artworks again in the context of their creation.

art [fine art] --- collections [object groupings] --- Art --- Liechtenstein: the Princely Collections [Wien] --- Sculpture --- Painting --- sculpture [visual works] --- easel paintings [paintings by form] --- Giacometti, Alberto --- Kubrick, Stanley --- Leclercq, Léna --- Noble, Michael --- Zinelli, Carlo --- Giacometti, Alberto. --- Kubrick, Stanley. --- Noble, Michael. --- Zinelli, Carlo. --- Leclercq, Léna. --- art [discipline] --- bronzes [visual works] --- busts [general, figures] --- human figures [visual works] --- paintings [visual works]