Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 471 g
Reihe: DENKT KUNST
Around a Sculpture by Alberto Giacometti
Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 140 mm x 225 mm, Gewicht: 471 g
Reihe: DENKT KUNST
ISBN: 978-3-03734-520-7
Verlag: diaphanes
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 whom Giacometti counted as influences, Didi-Huberman presents fans and collectors of Giacometti’s art with a new approach to transitional work.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Einzelne Künstler: Biographien, Monografien
- Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ästhetik
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunsttheorie, Kunstphilosophie
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstformen, Kunsthandwerk Bildhauerei, Plastik, Denkmäler
- Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunstgeschichte Kunstgeschichte: 20./21. Jahrhundert
Weitere Infos & Material
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10
Note
(Georges Didi-Huberman)
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14
Buried Face
(Georges Didi-Huberman)
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23
Face of the Orientation that Cannot Be Found
(Georges Didi-Huberman)
25
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35
Face of the Drawing that Seeks its Volume
(Georges Didi-Huberman)
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41
Face of the Cage and the Transparent Crystal
(Georges Didi-Huberman)
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48
Face of the Bodies that Come Apart
(Georges Didi-Huberman)
49
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Face of the Impossible Dimension
(Georges Didi-Huberman)
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85
Face of the Dead Heads
(Georges Didi-Huberman)
87
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101
Lost Face, Face of the Father
(Georges Didi-Huberman)
103
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121
Face of Opacity and the Blind Crystal
(Georges Didi-Huberman)
123
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131
Face of Shadow and Spacing
(Georges Didi-Huberman)
133
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136
Melancholic Face
(Georges Didi-Huberman)
137
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145
Face of the Drawing that Seeks its Notch
(Georges Didi-Huberman)
147
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156
Face for Finishing with the Object
(Georges Didi-Huberman)
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198
Buried Face
(Georges Didi-Huberman)
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224
Notes
225
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245
In the Face of the Unface
(Mira Fliescher, Elena Vogman)
247
Credits
| 9 | - | 10 | Note | (Georges Didi-Huberman) |
| 11 | - | 14 | Buried Face | (Georges Didi-Huberman) |
| 15 | - | 23 | Face of the Orientation that Cannot Be Found | (Georges Didi-Huberman) |
| 25 | - | 35 | Face of the Drawing that Seeks its Volume | (Georges Didi-Huberman) |
| 37 | - | 41 | Face of the Cage and the Transparent Crystal | (Georges Didi-Huberman) |
| 43 | - | 48 | Face of the Bodies that Come Apart | (Georges Didi-Huberman) |
| 49 | - | 62 | Face of the Impossible Dimension | (Georges Didi-Huberman) |
| 63 | - | 85 | Face of the Dead Heads | (Georges Didi-Huberman) |
| 87 | - | 101 | Lost Face, Face of the Father | (Georges Didi-Huberman) |
| 103 | - | 121 | Face of Opacity and the Blind Crystal | (Georges Didi-Huberman) |
| 123 | - | 131 | Face of Shadow and Spacing | (Georges Didi-Huberman) |
| 133 | - | 136 | Melancholic Face | (Georges Didi-Huberman) |
| 137 | - | 145 | Face of the Drawing that Seeks its Notch | (Georges Didi-Huberman) |
| 147 | - | 156 | Face for Finishing with the Object | (Georges Didi-Huberman) |
| 157 | - | 198 | Buried Face | (Georges Didi-Huberman) |
| 199 | - | 224 | Notes | |
| 225 | - | 245 | In the Face of the Unface | (Mira Fliescher, Elena Vogman) |
| 247 | Credits |




