Looking at Giacometti

About this book

Winner of a Venice Bienniale Golden Lion Award Looking at Giacometti is a compelling mixture of biography and criticism including an extraordinary interview with Giacometti. Written over a period of forty years Looking at Giacometti is a profound response to the art of one of modernisms greatest sculptors. It takes students from world-renowned art critic David Sylvesters first visits to Giacomettis studio in the late 1940s to the authors prolonged sitting for the artists portrait of him in the 1960 and reflections on his complete oeuvre after Giacomettis death. A compelling mixture of biography and criticism and including a sixteen-page insert of black and white photographs by Patricia Matisse this book sheds new light on twentieth-century art and thought.