Looking at Giacometti

David Sylvester

Book (22 Sep 1994)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Written by the author of "Henry Moore", "Interviews with Francis Banco" and "Rene Magritte", this book is the fruit of a long collaboration as sitter, friend, critic and exhibition curator with Alberto Giacometti. It is a response to Giacometti's art, with observations on his work in progress, and reflections on his completed oeuvre, after his death in 1966.;David Sylvester was awarded a Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale, the first critic ever to receive this award.

About the Publisher

Chatto & Windus

Chatto was founded in 1855 by a bookseller-publisher called John Camden Hotten. On Hotten's death, Andrew Chatto, who had worked there since he was fifteen, acquired the business with a sleeping partner, W.E. Windus. In 1917, The Hogarth Press was founded by Virginia and Leonard Woolf, and in 1946 this too came under Chatto's management. The firm published many significant writers and classics - R.L. Stevenson, Lytton Strachey, Marcel Proust, Laurie Lee, Christopher Isherwood, Rosamond Lehmann, Henry Green, Sigmund Freud and Iris Murdoch. Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate, was editorial director in the 1960s.

Book information

ISBN:	9780701162528
Publisher:	Chatto & Windus
Imprint:	Chatto & Windus
Pub date:	22 Sep 1994
DEWEY:	709.2
DEWEY edition:	20
Language:	English
Number of pages:	256
Weight:	1094g
Height:	265mm
Width:	187mm