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Giacometti

Title: Giacometti / edited by Megan Fontanella, Karole P.B. Vail ; with contributions by Valerie J. Fletcher, Catherine Grenier.
Publication: New York, New York : Guggenheim Museum Publications, [2018]

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159 pages : illustrations (some color); 29 cm

Summary

This comprehensive survey of the work of the Swiss-born modern master Alberto Giacometti offers a fresh and incisive account of his creative output. Published on the occasion of Giacometti's first major museum presentation in the US in over a decade, the volume brings together nearly 200 sculptures, paintings and drawings to trace the artist's wide-ranging and innovative engagement with the human form across various mediums. While Giacometti may be best known for his distinct figurative sculptures that emerged after World War II, including a series of elongated standing women, striding men and expressive busts, this volume devotes equal attention to the artist's early and midcareer development. It explores his lesser-known engagement with Cubism and Surrealism as well as African, Oceanic and Cycladic art, while also highlighting his remarkable talents as a draftsman and painter alongside his sculptural oeuvre. Of particular focus is Giacometti's studio practice, in addition to historical photographs documenting his relationship with the Guggenheim Museum - which hosted the artist's first US museum exhibition, in 1955 - and with New York City. Exhibition: Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA (8.6. - 12.9.2018).

Uniform Title

Giacometti (Guggenheim Museum Publications)

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Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

Published on the occasion of the exhibition Giacometti, co-organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, and the Fondation Giacometti, Paris.

Call Number

JQF 18-1189

ISBN

9780892075386
0892075384

LCCN

2018007614

OCLC

1003256514

Title

Giacometti / edited by Megan Fontanella, Karole P.B. Vail ; with contributions by Valerie J. Fletcher, Catherine Grenier.

Publisher

New York, New York : Guggenheim Museum Publications, [2018]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Fontanella, Megan M., editor.

Vail, Karole P. B., editor.

Fletcher, Valerie J., contributor.

Grenier, Catherine, contributor.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, organizer.

Fondation Alberto et Annette Giacometti, organizer.

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 18-1189

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