Alberto Giacometti: Toward the Ultimate Figure

by Emilie Bouvard (Editor), Serena Bucalo (Contributor), Hugo Daniel (Contributor), Ann Dumas (Contributor), Catherine Grenier (Contributor), Catharina Manchanda (Contributor), Romain Perrin (Contributor), William Robinson (Contributor), William Rudolph (Contributor) A comprehensive survey of the work of the legendary Swiss artist, this book illustrates and examines more than 100 of his sculptures, paintings, drawings, and prints.This lavishly illustrated retrospective traces the early and midcareer development of the preeminent Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966), examining the emergence of his distinct figural style through works including a series of walking men, elongated standing women, and numerous busts. Rare paintings and drawings from his formative period show the significance of landscape in Giacometti’s work, while also revealing the influence of the postimpressionist painters that surrounded his father, the artist Giovanni Giacometti. Other areas of inquiry on which