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The Cube and the Face - Around a Sculpture by Alberto Giacometti

Paperback • 2015 • 1. edition

The Cube and the Face - Around a Sculpture by Alberto Giacometti

By Georges Didi-Huberman

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About the book

Alberto Giacometti's 1934 Cube stands apart for many as a typical 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 exc...Show more

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9783037345207

Publisher

Diaphanes AG

Published year

2015

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1

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The Cube and the Face - Around a Sculpture by Alberto Giacometti

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Paperback

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