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The Cube and the Face - Around a Sculpture by Alberto Giacometti
Georges Didi-Huberman
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Description for The Cube and the Face - Around a Sculpture by Alberto Giacometti
Paperback. 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 others whom Giacometti counted as influences, this book presents fans and collectors of Giacometti's art with an approach to transitional work. Num Pages: 224 pages, 85 halftones. BIC Classification: ACXD9; AFKB; AGB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 227 x 20. Weight in Grams: 474.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Diaphanes AG
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Zurich, Switzerland
ISBN
9783037345207
SKU
V9783037345207
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About Georges Didi-Huberman
Georges Didi-Huberman is professor at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in Paris. He is the author of more than thirty books on the history and theory of images, including Images in Spite of All, published by the University of Chicago Press.
Reviews for The Cube and the Face - Around a Sculpture by Alberto Giacometti
Didi-Huberman exploits the formal presence of Cube to construct a metaphoric and polyphonic interplay of critical facets which allows him to engage with a range of Giacometti s aesthetic investigations.
Timothy Mathews, author of Alberto Giacometti: The Art of Relation
Timothy Mathews, author of Alberto Giacometti: The Art of Relation