Det första svenska bildverket om en av de viktigaste konstnärerna i vår tid. Med text av Sune Nordgren och Jean Genet. »Man står inför sig själv när man betraktar Alberto Giacomettis konst, och det är i ögonen man möts. I målningarnas totala fokusering av ögonen, i teckningarnas freneti[...]

Alberto Giacometti's attenuated figures of the human form are among the most significant artistic images of the twentieth century. Jean-Paul Sartre and Andre Breton are just two of the great thinkers whose thought has been nurtured by the graceful, harrowing work of Giacometti, which continues to re[...]

Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) is one of the most significant sculptors of the twentieth century, internationally acclaimed for his unique style and innovative vision. His distinctive elongated figures are inescapably associated with the post-war climate of existentialist despair and almost more recog[...]

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 Switzerland in 1901, he settled in Paris in 1922 where he lived and worked fo[...]

Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), Sohn des Schweizer Malers Giovanni Giacometti, geboren und aufgewachsen im Bergell, lebte nach Studien in Genf und Rom seit 1922 meist in Paris. In den 1930er-Jahren machte er zunächst Furore im Kreis der Surrealisten und war als Designer für Lampen und Vasen tätig[...]

The Swiss-born sculptor Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) is best known for his bronzes depicting ghostly and attenuated figures, which made him a key figure of twentieth-century sculpture. This impressive monograph is a compilation of the in-depth studies produced over the course of a decade by Veron[...]