Alberto Giacometti : the art of relation / Timothy Mathews.
By: Mathews, Timothy [author.]
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BookPublisher: London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2014Description: x, 260 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781780767871 (paperback); 1780767870 (paperback) ; 9781780767864 (hardback); 1780767862 (hardback).Other title: Art of relation.Contained works: Giacometti, Alberto, 1901-1966. Sculptures. Selections.Subject(s): Giacometti, Alberto, 1901-1966 -- Criticism and interpretationDDC classification: 730.92 GIA | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 resonate with artists, writers and audiences. Timothy Mathews explores fragility, trauma, space and relationality in Giacometti's art and writing and the capacity to relate that emerges. In doing so, he draws upon the novels of W.G. Sebald, Samuel Beckett and Cees Nooteboom and the theories of Maurice Blanchot and Bertolt Brecht; and recasts Giacometti's Le Chariot as Walter Benjamin's angel of history. This book invites readers on a voyage of discovery through Giacometti's deep concerns with memory, attachment and humanity. Both a critical study of Giacometti's work and an immersion in its affective power, it asks what encounters with Giacometti's pieces can tell us about our own time and our own ways of looking; and about the humility of relating to art.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-258) and index.
Machine generated contents note: 1.Seeing, Feeling, Knowing: Living with the Writing of Alberto Giacometti -- 2.Touch, Translation, Witness: Alberto Giacometti, La Main, Le Nez -- 3.Walter Benjamin with Alberto Giacometti: The Broken Embraces of Witness and Form -- 4.Walking with Angels in Beckett and Giacometti -- 5.W. G. Sebald with Alberto Giacometti: On Reading Together Apart -- 6.Reading the Invisible with Cees Nooteboom, Walter Benjamin and Alberto Giacometti -- 7.The Struggle to Translate: Living with the Sculptures of Alberto Giacometti
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of Illustrations (p. vii)
- Acknowledgements (p. ix)
- Prologue: Closer, Bigger, Further Away (p. 1)
- 1 Seeing, Feeling, Knowing: Living with the Writing of Alberto Giacometti (p. 31)
- 2 Touch, Translation, Witness: Alberto Giacometti, La Main, Le Nez (p. 88)
- 3 Walter Benjamin with Alberto Giacometti: The Broken Embraces of Witness and Form (p. 103)
- 4 Walking with Angels in Beckett and Giacometti (p. 116)
- 5 W. G. Sebald with Alberto Giacometti: On Reading Together Apart (p. 132)
- 6 Reading the Invisible with Cees Nooteboom, Walter Benjamin and Alberto Giacometti (p. 147)
- 7 The Struggle to Translate: Living with the Sculptures of Alberto Giacometti (p. 161)
- Epilogue: The More You, The More Anyone (p. 229)
- Notes (p. 239)
- Bibliography (p. 253)
- Index (p. 259)