Figures of Crisis

""In this eloquent account, Fiduccia gives us a newly relevant Giacometti, one whose sculptural innovations resonate not only with questions of surrealist revelation and existential space but also national and ethnic identity and their vexed visual representation in the public sphere.""—Robert Slifkin, author of The New Monuments and the End of Man “Figures of Crisis is one of the finest and most richly articulated monographic studies on Giacometti. It makes a particularly compelling case for the broader significance—artistic, cultural, and political—of his fascinating and complex sculptural oeuvre.”—Alex Potts, author of The Sculptural Imagination: Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist (Yale 2001) “Synthesizing the enormous previous scholarship on the artist, Fiduccia has deftly linked these sculptures to the rise of nationalism during the interwar period. Impressive and important.”—Susan Laxton, author of Surrealism at Play