Giacometti : critical essays / edited by Peter Read and Julia Kelly.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Read, Peter (Peter F.)

Kelly, Julia, 1970-

Thea Marie Garfield Fund.

Series:

Subject/object--new studies in sculpture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Giacometti, Alberto, 1901-1966--Criticism and interpretation.

Giacometti, Alberto.

Giacometti, Alberto, 1901-1966.

Criticism and interpretation.

Physical Description:

xiv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Farnham, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2009]

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Thea Marie Garfield Fund.

ISBN:

9780754654469

075465446X

OCLC:

255142371

Publisher Number:

99939772915