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The Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) was arguably the greatest sculptor of the twentieth century. He was also--as James Lord persuasively argued in A Biography --a heroic figure whose vocation sustained him through a life of crippling anxiety and erotic guilt.Almost twenty years after it first appeared, Giacometti has attained the status of a classic, one of the most candid and complete biographies of an artist in our time. In Mythic Giacometti , Lord reveals the hidden "blueprint" of that a daringly literal, visionary interpretation of the myth of Oedipus as it affected the conduct and outcome of Giacometti's life. The result is a case study both in the development of an artist and in the writing of biography. Lord concentrates on the private totems of Giacometti's life-family legend, childhood memory,illness and injury, crucial sexual encounters, intimations of mortality-that amounted, in Lord's view, to signs of a tragic destiny directly linked to the central tragedy of Western literature.
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Mythic Giacometti, James Lord
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- 2004
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- Titul
- Mythic Giacometti
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autori
- James Lord
- Vydavateľ
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Rok vydania
- 2004
- Väzba
- pevná
- Počet strán
- 144
- ISBN10
- 0374218803
- ISBN13
- 9780374218805
- Série
- Štítky
- Náučná literatúra, Umenie & Kultúra, Umenie
- Hodnotenie
- 3,55 z 5
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- The Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) was arguably the greatest sculptor of the twentieth century. He was also--as James Lord persuasively argued in A Biography --a heroic figure whose vocation sustained him through a life of crippling anxiety and erotic guilt.Almost twenty years after it first appeared, Giacometti has attained the status of a classic, one of the most candid and complete biographies of an artist in our time. In Mythic Giacometti , Lord reveals the hidden "blueprint" of that a daringly literal, visionary interpretation of the myth of Oedipus as it affected the conduct and outcome of Giacometti's life. The result is a case study both in the development of an artist and in the writing of biography. Lord concentrates on the private totems of Giacometti's life-family legend, childhood memory,illness and injury, crucial sexual encounters, intimations of mortality-that amounted, in Lord's view, to signs of a tragic destiny directly linked to the central tragedy of Western literature.