Alberto Giacometti
Alberto Giacometti

Summary/Abstract: This short text, published in 1929 in „Documents”, was the first, highly personal attempt at describing the phenomenon of sculptures by Alberto Giacometti. „We find the overwhelming majority of works of art terribly boring”, Leiris wrote. He went on to say: „There are certain moments which one might describe as a crisis and only they are important in life. These are the moments when suddenly that what is external begins to correspond to the demands transmitted from our interior, moments in which the outside world opens up so that the threads of understanding could be just as suddenly established between it and our hearts. (...) I am fond of Giacometti’s sculpture because everything which he does appears to render such a crisis indelible in stone...”

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