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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…
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- Title In Giacometti's Studio
- Author Michael Peppiatt
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition First edition /
- Pages 224
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Yale University Press, U.S.A.
- Date 2010
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780300093933 / 0300093934
- Weight 3.9 lbs (1.77 kg)
- Dimensions 12.5 x 9.9 x 1.02 in (31.75 x 25.15 x 2.59 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Giacometti, Alberto, Artists' studios - France - Paris
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010037264
- Dewey Decimal Code B
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