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Dessins surréalistes : visions et techniques.

Picasso-Giacometti

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Alberto Giacometti : myth, magic, and the man by Wilson, Laurie

Table of Contents: “…1901-1914: Down in the Valley -- 1914-1919 Coming of Age -- 1920-1925: Travel Is Broadening: Geneva, Venice, and Rome -- 1925-1929: Paris, Prehistory, and Sexuality -- 1929-1933: One of the Boys: Surrealist Splendor -- 1930-1932: Surrealist Sculpture: Themes and Variations -- 1933-1935: A Double Loss: Death and Departure -- 1935-1941: Transition and Timelessness -- 1940-1946: The War Years: Geneva and Paris -- 1946-1947: Guilt and Hope: A Dream and Three Sculptures -- 1947: The Quest for the Absolute and Absolute Elongation -- 1948-1954: Exuberance and Maturity -- 1955-1966: Portraits: Reprise and Reprisal.…”
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Alberto Giacometti : works, writings, interviews by Gonzalez, Angel

In Giacometti's studio by Peppiatt, Michael

Table of Contents: “…Letters of introduction ; Entering the labyrinth ; How Giacometti changed my life -- Giacometti's studio before the war. 46 rue Hippolyte ; The importance of being surrealist ; Reality and exile -- Giacometti's studio in post-war Paris. …”

Alberto Giacometti by Hohl, Reinhold

Table of Contents: “…Foreword -- Part 1: Background -- Origin and ancestry -- Talent -- Early education -- Borgonovo -- Stampa -- Maloja, Giovanni, Augusto, Alberto Giacometti -- Life patterns -- Stylistic heritage -- Part 2: Development -- Periods and subjects -- Introduction: Oeuvre; changing form-unchanging compositional idea -- 1914-1919-1924: Youth-the academy -- 1925-1930-1934: Mannered figures-visual models -- Figures in the post-Cubist manner (1925-1929) -- Surrealist visual models (1930-1932) -- Metaphors of a compositional idea (1932-1934) -- 1935-1940-1946: Art as a confrontation with reality and existence -- New beginning (1935-1940) -- Artwork as the appearance of reality (1940-1946) -- 1947-1951: Realizations in a massless, weightless style -- 1952-1956/1958-1965: Artwork as autonomous reality -- Artwork as an evocation of reality in imaginary space (1952-1956/1958) -- Crucial turning point (1956-1958) -- Artwork as a double of reality in real space (1958-1965) -- Part 3: Person, His Works, His Contemporaries -- Giacometti legend and Giacometti's statements -- Giacometti's "visions": art and reality; life and death -- Crisis as a literary prose -- Man alone facing the enormities of reality -- Man at zero on the space-time co-ordinates; reality cannot be understood, only described -- Documentary biography -- Notes -- List of illustrations -- Systematic bibliography -- Index -- Photo credits -- Acknowledgments.…”