In Giacometti's Studio by Michael Peppiatt - 2010

New Haven : Yale University Press, 2010. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. Hardcover with dust jacket. Like new in publisher's shrink-wrap. This deeply engaging book introduces the reader to the creative chaos of the tiny Parisian studio of the great sculptor Alberto Giacometti, from the moment he and his brother, Diego, arrived in 1927, with all their possessions in a wheelbarrow, until Alberto’s death in 1966. Michael Peppiatt relates how the artist first worked there as a member of the Surrealist movement and then how he gradually made his mark on Paris’s artistic, literary, and intellectual worlds. After an enforced wartime exile in Geneva in a miserable hotel, he returned to Paris and to the same broken-down little shed of a studio behind Montparnasse where he struggled to realize his pared-down vision of mankind and which became a magnet for many of the great artists and writers of the time (from Picasso and Braque to Balthus, from Breton and Genet to Beckett). Peppiatt prefaces his story… Read More

Yale University Press, 2010. Hardcover. New. 12x9x1. BRAND NEW. Still Sealed in Publishers Shrinkwrap.