Georges Didi-Huberman

The Cube and the Face

Around a Sculpture by Alberto Giacometti
Herausgegeben:Vogman, Elena; Fliescher, Mira;Übersetzung:Lillis, Shane

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Produktbeschreibung

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 Giacometticounted as influences, Didi-Huberman presents fans and collectors of Giacometti's art with a new approach to transitional work.

Produktdetails

• DENKT KUNST
• Verlag: diaphanes
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. April 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 140mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9783037345207
• ISBN-10: 3037345209
• Artikelnr.: 41587851

Inhaltsangabe

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 Notes225 - 245 In the Face of the Unface (Mira Fliescher, Elena Vogman)247 Credits

Rezensionen

"A spiral-shaped investigation of Giacometti's work revolving around various readings of one of his sculptures ... Didi-Huberman exploits the formal presence of Cube to construct a metaphoric and polyphonic interplay of critical facets which allows him to engage with a range of Giacometti's aesthetical investigations." Timothy Mathews, excerpt from Alberto Giacometti: The Art of Relation.