Giacometti's thin figures: dead men walking; in which the author advances a psychoanalytic interpretation of the artist's gaunt postwar figures, postulating (among other factors) the lifelong impact of a series of family losses and the shattering revelations of the Holocaust.(Alberto Giacometti)

Art in America | May 1, 2002| | Copyright

By the late 1940s, Alberto Giacometti was widely regarded as the artist who best represented mankind at midcentury. He had been a celebrated Surrealist sculptor, working in a semiabstract style, whose career was marooned in the mid-1930s, at first by his return to figuration and then by a decade of inhibition and voluntary obscurity which included the war years. In January 1948, Giacometti burst back into the art world with the first exhibition of his gaunt postwar figural sculptures. From the outset these works were startling, forcing viewers to confront some perceptual ...

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