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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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- Publicado en
- 2004
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- Título
- Mythic Giacometti
- Idioma
- Inglés
- Autores
- James Lord
- Editorial
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Publicado en
- 2004
- Formato
- Tapa dura
- Páginas
- 144
- ISBN10
- 0374218803
- ISBN13
- 9780374218805
- Serie
- Etiquetas
- No ficción, Arte / Cultura, Arte
- Calificación
- 3,55 de 5
- Descripción
- 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.