| The Cube and the Face: Around a Sculpture by Alberto Giacometti Contributor(s): Didi-Huberman, Georges (Author), Fliescher, Mira (Editor), Vogman, Elena (Editor) |
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ISBN: 3037345209 ISBN-13: 9783037345207 Publisher: Diaphanes OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Art | History - Modern (late 19th Century To 1945) - Art | Individual Artists - Essays - Art | Criticism & Theory |
| Dewey: 730.92 |
| Series: Think Art |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.8" (1.05 lbs) 248 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Alberto Giacometti's 1934 Cube stands apart for many as atypical 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 Giacometti counted as influence, Didi-Huberman presents fans and collectors of Giacometti's art with a new approach to transitional work. |
Contributor Bio(s): Didi-Huberman, Georges: - Georges Didi-Huberman is professor at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He is the author of more than thirty books on the history and theory of images, including Images in Spite of All, published by the University of Chicago Press. |