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Title: A Giacometti Portrait by James Lord ISBN: 0-374-51573-5 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1980 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (2 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: TO SEE VERY MUCH
Comment: Anyone who has ever wondered how a truly great artist gets his inspiration, works on a daily basis and incorporates his philosophies of life into his work will want to read this terrific story of how a young, American writer sat for his portrait by the legendary Alberto Giacometti.
Almost non-stop upon their meeting, Giacometti opens up and begins letting his thoughts come tumbling out of his mouth. He tells his subject that he looks like "a thug...if I could paint you as I see you and a policeman saw the picture he'd arrest you immediately!" And then, "Don't laugh. I'm not supposed to make my models laugh." He tells the author of his trip to London's National Gallery where he says, "...I deliberately didn't look at the Rembrandts, because if I had looked at them I wouldn't have been able to look at anything else afterward." Later on in his work, "It's impossible to paint a portrait...the photograph exists and that's all there is to it."
Giacometti was not only one of the greatest artists of the last century he was also, obviously, a wonderful, contradictory, clever, intelligent, verbal, loving, open, warm companion. When the painting is not going well, the artist exclaims, "If only Cezanne were here, he would set everything right with two brush strokes." Lord gently corrects him pointing out that Cezanne had plenty of trouble. And then Giacometti (probably with a hint of happiness) agrees, "Even he had trouble."
One comes to know these two men so well in this small, beautifully written memoir that one feels close to them and to their emotional upset when after only eighteen days, they part ways. The author reminds us that Giacometti would be the first to remark that a portrait could only achieve a "semblence of reality." He hopes that the artist will enjoy this written portrait. As Lord writes, "To see even so little will be to see very much." True.
Included in the paperback are snapshots taken to show Lord's portrait in progress. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED.
Rating: 5
Summary: Absolutley Fabulous!
Comment: This book is a must, for fans of Giacometti's work and for artists world wide. It gives one the opportunity to be in the studio with a great artist. It is wonderfull but terrible at the same time, as an artist, I came away from the book feeling completely insignificant untalented and without hope, however this is a good thing, it is an experience all artists must, and do go through. Please read the book you will learn so much!
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Title: Giacometti : A Biography by James Lord ISBN: 0374525250 Publisher: Noonday Press Pub. Date: 30 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: The Selected Poems of T'Ao Ch'Ien by T'Ao Ch'Ien, David Hinton, Tao Chien, Ch'ien T'Ao, Qian Tao ISBN: 1556590563 Publisher: Copper Canyon Press Pub. Date: May, 1993 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangeness (Kodansha Globe) by David Joseph Weeks, Jamie James, Philip Turner ISBN: 1568361564 Publisher: Kodansha International Pub. Date: October, 1996 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Banquet Years by Roger Shattuck ISBN: 0394704150 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 12 June, 1968 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Dreams of Terror and Death : The Dream Cycle of H. P. Lovecraft by H. P. Lovecraft ISBN: 0345384210 Publisher: Del Rey Pub. Date: 11 September, 1995 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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