EAN: 9781526600950

GIACOMETTI IN PARIS - MICHAEL PEPPIATT GEBUNDEN

'Marvellous . . . intimate and insightful . . . reads like a novel by Samuel Beckett' Paul
Theroux A portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest sculptors from one of our most
eminent art historians Today the work of Alberto Giacometti is world-famous and his sculptures
sell for record-breaking prices. But from his early days as an unknown outsider to the end of a
dramatic international career  Giacometti lived in the same hovel of a studio in Paris. It was
Paris that made him  and he in turn immortalised the city through his art. Arriving in Paris
from the Swiss Alps in 1922  Giacometti was shaped not only by his relationships with
remarkable artists and writers - from Picasso  Breton and Dalí to Sartre  Beauvoir and Beckett
- but by the everyday life  pre-war and post-war  of Paris itself. His distinctive figures
emerged from the city's unique atmosphere: the crumbling grey stone of its humbler streets and
the café-terraces buzzing with radical ideas and racy gossip. In Giacometti in Paris  Michael
Peppiatt  who spent thirty years documenting the Parisian art world and mixing with many of the
people Giacometti knew  brilliantly charts the course of the artist's life and work. From
falling in and out with the Surrealists to years of artistic anguish  from devotion to his
mother to intense friendships  tragic love affairs and a fraught marriage  this is an intimate
portrait of an outstanding artist in exceptional times.

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