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A Museum of Modern Art Book
by Christian Klemm (Editor), Carolyn Lanchner (Editor), Tobia Bezzola (Editor), Anne Umland (Editor)
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Hardcover - 200 pages
(October 2001)
Museum of Modern Art; ISBN: 0810962209 ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.09 x 12.08
x 9.78
200 illustrations, 100 in full color and 100 duotone, 272 pages, 9 1/2 x 11
3/4"
A Museum of Modern Art Book
Alberto Giacometti, the elegant catalog for a major exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, seeks to counter overly literary or psychological interpretations of an artist who has long been viewed as a poster boy for existentialism. The atmospheric black-and-white halftones and color plates are organized in closely interrelated, chronological groups to support texts by several experts, including Christian Klemm, curator of the Alberto Giacometti Foundation. By focusing on the work itself--which includes paintings and drawings as well as the famously slender, elongated sculptures--the authors emphasize his exquisitely calibrated response to the roles played by perception and memory. In the portraits, for example, networks of fine lines dematerialize a sitter's face yet preserve her essence. Anne Umland's intriguing discussion of the roles of photography and the fetish in Giacometti's surrealist-era sculpture is one of the many pleasures of this book. --Cathy Curtis
This is the most comprehensive survey in many years of the work of one of the 20th century's greatest artists, Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966). Published to celebrate the centennial of his birth, the book accompanies an exhibition jointly organized by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the Kunsthaus Zürich.
The Swiss-born Giacometti was a supremely inventive sculptor as well as a painter and draftsman of the highest distinction. This volume includes many of his early Cubist-influenced and Surrealist works, often slyly humorous and allusively erotic, as well as his masterful drawings and paintings, and the elongated sculptures of the human head and figure for which he is best known. Published with the full involvement of the Alberto Giacometti Foundation, this will become the standard reference on the artist.
Exhibition Schedule: Kunsthaus Zürich, May 2001; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, October 2001
Christian Klemm is assistant director and curator of collections at the Kunsthaus Zürich and curator of the Alberto Giacometti Foundation. Carolyn Lanchner is a former curator at The Museum of Modern Art. Tobia Bezzola is curator at the Kunsthaus Zürich. Anne Umland is associate curator in the department of painting and sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
