Alberto Giacometti

Les artistes: Eva Aeppli, Hans Aeschbacher, John M Armleder, Bill Max, Pierre Blanc, Bodmer Walter, Brignoni Serge, Gustave Louis Buchet, Luciano Castelli, Jean Clerc, Silvie et Chérif Defraoui, Gaspard Delachaux, Martin Disler, Herbert Distel, Franz Eggenschwiler, Peter Fischli & David Weiss, Corsin Fontana, Karl Geiser, Théo Gerber, Alberto Giacometti, Diego Giacometti, Florin Granwehr, Irene Grundel, Barbara Heé, Leiko Ikemura, Rolf Iseli, Zoltan Kemeny, Walter Linck, Bernhard Luginbühl, Ingeborg Lüscher, Wilfrid Moser, Manuel Müller, Robert Müller, Meret Oppenheim, Carmen Perrin, Antoine Poncet, Henri Presset, André Raboud, Markus Raetz, Carl Fredrik Reuterswärd, Germaine Richier, Niki de Saint Phalle, Edouard Marcel Sandoz, Klaudia Schifferle, Kurt Sigrist, Daniel Spoerri, Anselm Stalder, André Thomkins, Jean Tinguely, Oscar Wiggli, Werner Witschi

A giant of twentieth-century art, Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) stands beside Picasso and Matisse as an artist who has defined the way our century is perceived, and alongside them as one of the few modern artists who have created sculpture, paintings and drawings with equal mastery. This lavishly illustrated book accompanies a major retrospective of Giacometti's work at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art in Edinburgh. The two hundred and forty-one works in the exhibition include many of Giacometti's greatest and best-known pieces, as well as rarely-seen Surrealist sculptures and previously unrecorded works. All are reproduced - eighty as full page colour plates. The fully illustrated essays, written by some of the world's leading Giacometti scholars, bring together remarkable new research and make this book an invaluable introduction to the artist's life and work.