Alberto Giacometti: Myth, Magic, and the Man"Wilson's Giacometti was an extremely imaginative child who entwined fantasy and real-life experiences. As he matured, the artist combined fact and fancy into evolving myths, part conscious and part unconscious. Drawing on biographical data uncovered during a decade of research, Wilson reconstructs traumatic events and issues in Giacometti's life - including family births and deaths, world wars and their aftermath, and his intense and ambivalent relationship with his parents - and examines their profound effects on his artistic evolution. These startling new interpretations will forever change the way we understand both the man and his work."--BOOK JACKET. |
Contents
19011914 Down in the Valley | 1 |
19141919 Coming of Age | 24 |
19201925 Travel Is Broadening Geneva Venice and Rome | 39 |
19251929 Paris Prehistory and Sexuality | 59 |
19291933 One of the Boys Surrealist Splendor | 89 |
19301932 Surrealist Sculpture Themes and Variations | 113 |
19331935 A Double Loss Death and Departure | 141 |
19351941 Transition and Timelessness | 156 |
1947 The Quest for the Absolute and Absolute Elongation | 225 |
19481954 Exuberance and Maturity | 246 |
19551966 Portraits Reprise and Reprisal | 269 |
Chronology | 299 |
The Dream the Sphinx and the Death of T | 303 |
Notes | 309 |
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19401946 The War Years Geneva and Paris | 183 |
19461947 Guilt and Hope A Dream and Three Sculptures | 208 |
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