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    Alberto Giacometti-Time Passes Too Soon

    First publication of Alberto Giacometti's family letters. Offers fascinating new insights into the personal and artistic evolution of one of Modernity's greatest artists and brings to life the vibrant Paris…

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    Rui Chafes and Alberto Giacometti: Gris, vide, cris

    An intergenerational and intercontinental conversation between the sculptures of two artists with vastly different influences and styles

    This exhibition catalog juxtaposes the work of contemporary Portuguese sculptor Rui Chafes (born…

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    Alberto Giacometti: A Biography

    Catherine Grenier

    An insightful and comprehensive biography of
    the
    great
    twentieth
    century
    sculptor
    Alberto

    Giacometti.

    Alberto Giacometti was one of the most
    enigmatic and memorable personalities of the twentieth century. Born in…

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    Why I am a sculptor

    Alberto Giacometti

    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…

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    Why I am a sculptor

    Alberto Giacometti

    A sculpture is not an object, it is an interrogation, a question, a response. It cannot be finished or perfect.

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    The Dream, the Sphinx, and the Death of T.

    Alberto Giacometti

    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…

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    I Certainly Practise Painting…

    Alberto Giacometti

    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…

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    Notes on the Copies

    Alberto Giacometti

    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…

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    Alberto Giacometti: The Art of Relation

    Timothy Mathews

    Alberto Giacometti’s attenuated figures of the human form are among the most significant artistic images of the 20th century. Both a critical study of Giacometti’s life and work, and an…

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    Gestern, Flugsand: Schriften

    Alberto Giacometti

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    Alberto Giacometti - Auf der Suche

    Jana Tiedemann

    Studienarbeit aus dem Jahr 2013 im Fachbereich Kunst - Bildhauerei, Skulptur, Plastik, Note: 3,0, Christian-Albrechts-Universitat Kiel (Kunsthistorisches Institut), Veranstaltung: Surrealismus, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Alberto Giacometti gilt als einer der faszinierendsten…

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    Alberto Giacometti: Le reel merveilleux

    This book references all the artist’s periods and media: sculpture (plaster, bronze), paintings, drawings, prints… It will allow a comprehensive view of Alberto Giacometti’s creation, from early works to the…

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    Alberto Giacometti: Works, Writings and Interviews

    Angel Gonzalez

    This essential volume contains a key selection of Giacometti’s own writings, and also included are important interviews with the artist by Pierre Scnider and Andre Parinaud.

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    Alberto Giacometti: Myth, Magic, and the Man

    Laurie Wilson

    Laurie Wilson shows how Giacometti’s secret beliefs & emotional scars are reflected in his sculpture, drawings & paintings. She reconstructs the traumatic events & issues of his life, including family…

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    Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure

    A comprehensive survey of the work of the legendary Swiss artist, this book illustrates and examines more than 100 of his sculptures, paintings, drawings, and prints

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    The Cube and the Face - Around a Sculpture by Alberto Giacometti

    Georges Didihuberman

    Alberto Giacometti’s 1934 Cube stands apart as a Swiss artist, the abstract sculptural work that otherwise had as its objective the exploration of reality. Drawing on Freud, Bataille, Leiris, and…

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    Alberto Giacometti, Yves Klein: In Search of the Absolute

    Joachim Pissarro

    This stunning two-volume set evokes the differences, as well as the affinities, between the works of groundbreaking artists Yves Klein and Alberto Giacometti.

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    Residual Figuration in Samuel Beckett and Alberto Giacometti

    Li Lin

    In 1945, Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) brought back to Paris six matchboxes filled with the work of his war years: minute figurines that crumbled upon a single touch. Around…

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    Writing Art: French Literary Responses to the Work of Alberto Giacometti

    Emma Wagstaff

    The Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti participated in Parisian literary and cultural circles from the early meetings of Surrealists to existentialism and diverse currents in art and poetry that followed. This…

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    From Kirchner’s Morphine to a Passion for Giacometti: Encounters with two dear friends of Alberto Giacometti

    Renato Bergamin,James Lord

    In this volume Renato Bergamin talks about a very personal approach to the two great artists Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Alberto Giacometti.

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    Alberto Giacometti: Meisterwerke Aus Der Fondation Maeght / Masterpieces from the Fondation Maeght

    Markus Muller,Oliver Kaeppelin,Oliver Kaeppelin

    Alberto Giacometti’s works - his apparently enraptured, ascetic-looking sculptures - are unmistakable. The artist himself is considered to be one of the most idiosyncratic and original sculptors of the twentieth…

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    Begegnung Mit Der Vergangenheit: Kopien Nach Alter Kunst

    Alberto Giacometti

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    Alberto und Diego Giacometti: Die verborgene Geschichte

    Claude Delay

    Alberto und Diego Giacometti - ein Paar, lebenslanglich unzertrennlich. Keine Frau kann sie voneinander loesen, eine einzige Frau vereint sie: die Mutter. Albertos Lebenswerk - seine statischen, im Boden verankerten…

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    Oslo Pilot (2015-17): A Project Investigating the Role of Art in and for the Public Space-Laying the Groundwork for Oslo Biennial First Edition

    To make art in and for the public domain today is to engage with the precariousness that both defines and threatens our experience of it. OSLO PILOT (2015-17)–a project investigating…

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