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Alberto Giacometti - The Art of Relation (Paperback)
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Alberto Giacometti - The Art of Relation (Paperback)
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Alberto Giacometti's attenuated figures of the human form are among
the most significant artistic images of the 20th century. Sartre,
Breton, and Winnicott are just some of the great thinkers who have
drawn upon the graceful, harrowing work of Giacometti, which has
continued to resonate with artists, writers, and audiences. In this
book, Timothy Mathews explores the themes of fragility, trauma,
space, and relationality in Giacometti's art and the texts that
respond or refer to them: the novels of W.G. Sebald, Samuel Beckett
and Cees Nooteboom, and the theories of Bertolt Brecht, which
recasts the iconic L'Homme qui marche as Walter Benjamin's Angel of
History. During his lifelong quest to represent the human form, and
to locate the humanity at the heart of conflicting conceptions of
modernity, Giacometti returned to the key notions of depth and
flatness, memory and attachment, through his sculptures and
writings. Both a critical study of Giacometti's life and work, and
an investigation of their affective power, this book asks what
encounters with Giacometti's pieces can tell us about the history
of our own time, and our ways of looking; about the nature of human
attachment, and the humility of relating to art.
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