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The Cube and the Face - Around a Sculpture by Alberto Giacometti (Paperback)
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The Cube and the Face - Around a Sculpture by Alberto Giacometti (Paperback)
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Alberto Giacometti's 1934 Cube stands apart for many as a typical
of the Swiss artist, the only abstract sculptural work in a wide
oeuvre that otherwise had as its objective the exploration of
reality. With The Cube and the Face, renowned French art historian
and philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman has conducted a careful
analysis of Cube, consulting the artist's sketches, etchings,
texts, and other sculptural works in the years just before and
after Cube was created. Cube, he finds, is indeed exceptional - a
work without clear stylistic kinship to the works that came before
or after it. At the same time, Didi-Huberman shows, Cube marks the
transition between the artist's surrealist and realist phases and
contains many elements of Giacometti's aesthetic consciousness,
including his interest in dimensionality, the relation of the body
to geometry, and the portrait - or what Didi-Huberman terms
"abstract anthropomorphism." Drawing on Freud, Bataille, Leiris,
and others whom Giacometti counted as influences, Didi-Huberman
presents fans and collectors of Giacometti's art with a new
approach to transitional work.
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