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Per tutta la vita, Alberto Giacometti non ha mai smesso di scrivere settimanalmente alla famiglia, in val Bregaglia, lettere in cui raccontava le sue giornate, le sue frequentazioni, le difficoltà e i progressi della sua ricerca artistica. Una scelta rappresentativa di quella ricca corrispondenza, redatta quasi interamente in italiano, è qui presentata ai lettori per la prima volta. Dai tempi del collegio all’arrivo a Pa...

A sculpture is not an object, it is an interrogation, a question, a response. It cannot be finished or perfect. Including the following texts and extracts by Alberto Giacometti: I can only speak indirectly of my sculptures A sculptor seen by a sculptor. Henri Laurens by Alberto Giacometti The car demystified Farewell to Germaine Richier. Sitting among her sculptures The Leg Why I am a sculptor. In conversation with André Parinau...

I'm no longer frightened no more fright, before I used to tremble evening, night death always haunted me, tormented me, now nothing, it's worse it's terrifying, this calm" Including the following texts and extracts by Alberto Giacometti: "The dream, the Sphinx, and the death of T." "Enquiry on the encounter" "Coal of grass" "The brown curtain" "Poems in 7 spaces" "Yesterday, quicksands" "Outside all control..." "Splinter of...

Is a copy anything but an attempt to extract the maximum from an encounter with a work of art? I'm convinced that the copy of a masterpiece is the best school there is for any artist who decides to make art." Including the following texts by Alberto Giacometti: "Notes on the copies" Extract from a conversation with Gotthard Jedlicka "At the Louvre with Giacometti" A conversation with Pierre Schneider "For 15 days now..." Extract fr...

If I had some advice to give to a young painter, I would tell him to start by copying an apple." Including the following texts by Alberto Giacometti: "Fragments of a diary" In conversation with Gotthard Jedlicka "I certainly practise painting..." "Grey, brown, black..." "Braque has just died" "Portrait of an artist" Giacometti In conversation with Alain Jouffroy "The painter's monologue" In conversation with Georges Charbonnier ...

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Selecting nearly 200 of Alberto Giacometti's sculptures, paintings and drawings, this title showcases the artist's engagement with the human form across a range of mediums. Published to coincide with a major exhibition at New York's Guggenheim Museum from the 18th of June.

In seinen Texten kehrt Giacometti immer wieder zu jenen Fragen zurück, die ihn bedrängen. Sie zeigen, welche Bedeutung Freundschaften, Liebe, Träume, Objekte und Landschaften, seine Herkunft und seine Familie, Strassen, Bordelle und Museen in seinem Leben hatten. Es wird deutlich, wie sehr sein bildnerisches Schaffen, seine unverwechselbaren Figuren von weit her kommen: aus der Kindheit, aus der Beschäftigung mit der Geschichte der Kunst. «Kei...

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Ursprünglisch erschienen 1968 im Verlag Ernst Scheidegger, Zürich

Alberto Giacometti's early Surrealist and Cubist forms, compact volumes inspired by Africa and the Cyclades, eventually led this seminal twentieth-century Swiss artist to acknowledge a formal void that he would spend the balance of his career filling with the human figure. In the mid-1930s, influenced by the terrible social and political changes that were taking place across Europe, Giacometti began to develop heads and nudes in a signature st...

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