{"product_id":"9781526600998","title":"Giacometti in Paris","description":"Author: Peppiatt, Michael\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9781526600998\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 07 Jan 2025\u003cbr\u003ePages: 384 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eTHE\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eTIMES \u003c\/i\u003eAND WATERSTONES BEST ART BOOK OF 2023\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Intimate and insightful . . . reads like a novel by Samuel Beckett' Paul Theroux \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA portrait of one of the twentieth century's greatest sculptors from one of our most eminent art historians\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eToday 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.\u003cbr\u003eArriving 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 Dala 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 cafe-terraces buzzing with radical ideas and racy gossip.\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eGiacometti in Paris\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46636910772382,"sku":"UBD-9781526600998","price":26.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9781526600998.jpg?v=1774399474","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9781526600998","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}