Edited by Angela Schneider With contributions by Lucius Grisebach,Reinhold Hohl, Dieter Honisch, Karin yon Maur and Angela Schneider 224 pages with 31 full-color, 114 duotone and 71 black-and-white illustrations.

One of the great masters of 20th-century art, the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti captured the existential loneliness of modern humanity with his spindly, attenuated figures whose life-like gazes pierce the vastness of space. Uniting more than 25o sculptures, paintings, drawings and graphic works, this extensive monograph is an exemplary overview of his oeuvre.

One of the great masters of 20th-century art, the Swiss sculptor Alberto Giacometti captured the existential loneliness of modern humanity with his spindly, attenuated figures whose life-like gazes pierce the vastness of space. Uniting more than 25o sculptures, paintings, drawings and graphic works, this extensive monograph is an exemplary overview of his oeuvre.

The book underscores the continuity between the two remarkable bodies of work that characterize his career: the prei935 works, which included the finest of all Surrealist sculptures, and the post-war masterpieces. As a result of a profound artistic crisis that began in i934, when Giacometti returned to working from the model and thus broke with the Surrealists, the artist began tackling the problem of situating figures in space in an entirely new way. Painting played a key role in the solutions that Giacometti found to this problem, and the discussion here of the relationship between his two- and three-dimensional works reveals him to have been as great a painter as he was a sculptor.

Contributions by several notable art historians address contemporary research issues and offer a comprehensive record of Giacometti"s life and work. Among the many photographs of the artist and his circle are images by such notable photographers as Henri Cartier-Bresson, Ugo Mulas and Man Ray.

REINHOLD HOHL

Chronology

REINHOLD HOHL

Giacometti and his Century

KARIN VON MAUR

Giacometti and the Parisian Avant-Garde,

1925-I935

DIETER HONISCH

Scale in Giacometti’s Sculpture

ANGELA SCHNEIDER

As if from Afar: Constants in the Work of

Alberto Giacometti

LUCIUS GRISEBACH

The Paintings

Plates

Selected Bibliography

Photographic Acknowledgments

Index of Names