Alberto Giacometti: Retrospective

by Alberto Giacometti, Thierry Dufrêne, Donat Rütiman

Swiss-born sculptor and painter Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) is best known for the bronzes of ghostly and attenuated figures that made him a key member of the Surrealist movement. This retrospective focuses on the artist's so-called "crisis period" after 1935 and during the Second World War, which coincided with a larger critical juncture for modernism itself. In 1936, Giacometti began to concentrate his attention on the human head, focusing on...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 303764060X
• ISBN13: 9783037640609
• Release Date: March 2010
• Publisher: Jrp Ringier
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.6" x 9.3"