TY  - BOOK
AU  - Emma Wagstaff
PY  - 2021
CY  - Oxford, United Kingdom
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - Writing Art
T2  - French Literary Responses to the Work of Alberto Giacometti
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1107507
N2  - The Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti participated in Parisian literary and cultural circles from the early meetings of the Surrealists to existentialism and the diverse currents in art and poetry that followed. Numerous writers were inspired to respond to his sculpture, drawing, painting and publications during his lifetime and after his death in 1966. This book considers examples of poésie critique devoted to Giacometti’s work by major French poets and thinkers from André Breton to Yves Bonnefoy. Through close readings of key texts, it discusses the extent to which each writer has succeeded in overcoming the dichotomy between a text and its visual stimulus that so often leads to a hierarchical relationship. Many of these writers focus on the materiality of Giacometti’s works of art and of the written word. Examination of their writings thus allows new understandings of poésie critique and ekphrasis to be developed.
KW  - Parisian literary and cultural circles, major French poets, text and its visual stimulus, Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti, Surrealist group to Existentialism
LA  - English
ER  -