Alberto Giacometti, one of the most important artists of the 20th century, was also one of the most enigmatic. In this interpretation of Giacometti and his work, art historian and psychoanalyst Laurie Wilson demonstrates how the artist's secret beliefs and emotional scars are reflected in his evocative sculpture, drawings and paintings. Wilson's Giacometti was an extremely imaginative child who entwined fantasy and real-life experiences. As he matured, the artist combined fact and fancy into evolving myths, part conscious and part unconscious. Drawing on biographical data uncovered during a decade of research, Wilson reconstructs traumatic events and issues in Giacometti's life, including family births and deaths in early childhood, world wars and their aftermath, and his intense and ambivalent relationship with his parents; and she examines their profound effects on his artistic evolution.
- ISBN10 0300090374
- ISBN13 9780300090376
- Publish Date 11 May 2003
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 17 March 2006
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 352
- Language English