The Cube and the Face – Around a Sculpture by Alberto Giacometti - Couverture souple

Didihuberman, Georges

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3037345209 ISBN 13 : 9783037345207

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 2015

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

Alberto Giacometti's 1934 Cube stands apart for many as a typical of the Swiss artist, the only abstract sculptural work in a wide oeuvre that otherwise had as its objective the exploration of reality. With The Cube and the Face, renowned French art historian and philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman has conducted a careful analysis of Cube, consulting the artist's sketches, etchings, texts, and other sculptural works in the years just before and after Cube was created. Cube, he finds, is indeed exceptional - a work without clear stylistic kinship to the works that came before or after it. At the same time, Didi-Huberman shows, Cube marks the transition between the artist's surrealist and realist phases and contains many elements of Giacometti's aesthetic consciousness, including his interest in dimensionality, the relation of the body to geometry, and the portrait - or what Didi-Huberman terms "abstract anthropomorphism." Drawing on Freud, Bataille, Leiris, and others whom Giacometti counted as influences, Didi-Huberman presents fans and collectors of Giacometti's art with a new approach to transitional work.

Biographie de l'auteur :

Georges Didi-Huberman ist Kunsthistoriker und Philosoph und lehrt an der École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris. Zudem ist er Kurator zahlreicher Ausstellungen.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• ISBN 10: 3037345209
• ISBN 13: 9783037345207
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 224