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Peter Read is a specialist on modern French literature and the visual arts. His many publications include books on the works of Apollinaire and Picasso and essays on Rodin, Surrealism and 20th-century French poetry. He is currently Professor of French at the University of Kent. Julia Kelly has published and lectured on a varied range of artists and subjects, from Picasso and Giacometti to surrealism and the relationship between art and ethnography. She was a lecturer and co-ordinator for the AHRC Research Centre for Studies of Surrealism and its Legacies at the University of Manchester, where she is now an Honorary Research Fellow. Peter Read, Jon Wood, Michael Stone-Richards, Robin Spencer, Casimiro di Crescenzo, Thierry Dufrene, Alex Potts, Julia Kelly, Akihiko Takeda, Sarah Wilson.
'This informative and imaginative critical mosaic champions a comparative pallet in approaching the uniqueness of powerful aesthetic artefacts. [...] The book will absorb literary critics as much as art historians: it is a testimony to Giacometti's own iconic figure striding confidently forwards but enveloped in the frames allowing him to move.' French Studies
