Full name: Giacometti: A Biography

Author: James Lord Year: 1985 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Art, Biographies Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780374525255 0374525250

The work of one of the towering creative spirits of the century, Alberto Giacometti's visionary sculptures and paintings from a testament to the artist's intriguing life story. From modest beginnings in a Swiss village, Giacometti went on to flourish in the picturesque milieu of prewar Paris and then to achieve international acclaim in the fifties and sixties. Picasso, Balthus, Samuel Beckett, Stravinsky and Sartre have parts in his story, along with flamboyant art dealers, whores, shady drifters, unscrupulous collectors, poets and thieves. Women were a complex yet important element of his life--particularly his wife, Annette, and his last mistress and model, Caroline--as was the intimate relationship he shared with his brother Diego, who was both Alberto's confidant and collaborator. James Lord was personally acquainted with Giacometti and his entourage, and combines firsthand experience with a unique knowledge gathered during many years of observation and research. In this exceptional biography Lord unfolds the personal history of a man who managed to achieve a heroic destiny by remaining utterly true to himself and to his calling. Giacometti: A Biography was nominated for the National Book Critics Circle Award. James Lord has subsequently published three volumes of memoirs. In recognition of his contribution to French culture he has been made an officer of the Legion of Honour. Similar books: Georgia O'Keeffe by Roxana Robinson Eric Gill by Fiona MacCarthy The Life and Death of Andy Warhol by Victor Bockris Full Bloom by Hunter Drohojowska-Philp Desperate Romantics by Franny Moyle A Giacometti Portrait by James Lord Portrait of an Artist by Laurie Lisle The Shameful Life of Salvador Dali by Ian Gibson Lizzie Siddal by Lucinda Hawksley Holy Terror by Bob Colacello Cezanne by Alex Danchev Van Gogh by Steven Naifeh Matisse the Master by Hilary Spurling The Lives of the Muses by Francine Prose A Life of Picasso: The Triumphant Years: 1917-1932 by John Richardson Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh by Vincent van Gogh Vivian Maier by Richard Cahan The Graphic Work of M. C. Escher by M. C. Escher Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari Francis Bacon by Michael Peppiatt