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Timothy Mathews

Alberto Giacometti

The Art of Relation

Timothy Mathews

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English
I.B. Tauris
30 November 2013
Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960; Painting & paintings; Sculpture; Individual artists, art monographs
Alberto Giacometti's attenuated figures of the human form are among the most significant artistic images of the twentieth century. Jean-Paul Sartre and Andre Breton are just two of the great thinkers whose thought has been nurtured by the graceful, harrowing work of Giacometti, which continues to resonate with artists, writers and audiences. Timothy Mathews explores fragility, trauma, space and relationality in Giacometti's art and writing and the capacity to relate that emerges. In doing so, he draws upon the novels of W.G. Sebald, Samuel Beckett and Cees Nooteboom and the theories of Maurice Blanchot and Bertolt Brecht; and recasts Giacometti's Le Chariot as Walter Benjamin's angel of history. This book invites readers on a voyage of discovery through Giacometti's deep concerns with memory, attachment and humanity. Both a critical study of Giacometti's work and an immersion in its affective power, it asks what encounters with Giacometti's pieces can tell us about our own time and our own ways of looking; and about the humility of relating to art.
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Imprint:   I.B. Tauris
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 246mm,  Width: 189mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   549g
ISBN:   9781780767871
ISBN 10:   1780767870
Pages:   272
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Primary ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Timothy Mathews is Professor of French and Comparative Criticism at UCL. He is the author of Literature, Art and the Pursuit of Decay in Twentieth-Century France (2006), and Reading Apollinaire: Theories of Poetic Language (1990).

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