Giacometti

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Review The Swiss master of the skinny sublime is the subject of a majestic, exhuasting retropective. (Peter Schjeldahl The New Yorker)Giacometti’s willful distortions transcend eccentricity and artifice. (Lance Esplund Wall Street Journal)A terrific selection of paintings and drawings...whose lyricism is as suprising as birds escaping a magician's tophat. (Peter Schjeldahl The New Yorker)This modern artist takes us back in time as much as he shows a way ahead. (David D'Arcy The Observer)When all of us are trailed by inescapable terabytes of data, we can almost envy Giacometti’s slender bronze wraiths: stripped to the bone but still human, stripped of their names but still free. (Jason Farago New York Times) Read more About the Author Karole P. B. Vail is Director of the Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, and former curator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.Megan Fontanella is Curator of Modern Art and Provenance at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.Valerie Fletcher is Executive Director of the Institute for Human Centered Design, Massachusetts.Catherine Grenier is Director of the Giacometti Foundation, France. Read more