| Description |
xiv, 240 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Subject/object--new studies in sculpture |
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Subject/object--new studies in sculpture.
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| 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 Dufrene -- 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 |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Giacometti, Alberto, 1901-1966 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Sculptors -- Switzerland -- Congresses.
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Sculpture, Modern -- 20th century -- History -- Congresses.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Kelly, Julia, 1970-
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Read, Peter (Peter F.)
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| LC no. |
2008041394 |
| ISBN |
075465446X (hbk.) |
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9780754654469 (hbk.) |
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