Author: LORD, JAMES
Title: Mythic Giacometti
Description: New York : Farrar. Straus and Giroux 2004. First Edition. An exceptional copy; fine in an equally fine dw. now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new.; 131 pages; Description: ix. 131 p. ; 22 cm. Includes index. Subjects: Giacometti. Alberto (1901-1966) --Psychology --Sculptors --France --Biography. Summary: The Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) was arguably the greatest sculptor of the twentieth century. He was also--as James Lord persuasively argued in Giacometti: A Biography--a heroic figure whose vocation sustained him through a life of crippling anxiety and erotic guilt. Almost twenty years after it first appeared. Giacometti has attained the status of a classic. one of the most candid and complete biographies of an artist in our time. In Mythic Giacometti. Lord reveals the hidden 'blueprint' of that work: a daringly literal. visionary interpretation of the myth of Oedipus as it affected the conduct and outcome of Giacometti's life. The result is a case study both in the development of an artist and in the writing of biography. Lord concentrates on the private totems of Giacometti's life-family legend. childhood memory. illness and injury. crucial sexual encounters. intimations of mortality-that amounted. in Lord's view. to signs of a tragic destiny directly linked to the central tragedy of Western literature. by James Lord.ISBN: 0374218803. Weight in Kg appr.:

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