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Title: Giacometti-Chadwick: Facing Fear
Author: BIRD MICHAEL/KEUNING RALPH
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 01/05/2019
Imprint: WBOOKS
Price: $80.00
Publishing status: Active
In 1956, Lynn Chadwick (1914-2003) won the International Sculpture Prize at the Venice
Biennale. The youngest artist ever to receive the prize, this British sculptor had begun his career
only six years earlier. The runners-up included Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966), who was then
already a renowned artist and the overwhelming favourite to win. Yet the question of which one
received the prize – Giacometti won shortly afterwards, in 1962 – is less significant than the fact
that both of them were nominated for it. Each of the two represented, in his own way, the
confusion and disillusionment that prevailed in Cold War Europe. For Giacometti, these tensions
set off a deep existential crisis that led to a radical shift in his work. His string-like forms, now
well known, literally pare down the human being to his essence. In that same period, Chadwick’s
constructivist figures were described as ‘the geometry of fear’, a desperate cry expressing the
sense of menace that had the artist and his contemporaries in a stranglehold.
110 colour, 75 b/w images Text in English and Dutch
ISBN: 9789462621961
Dimension: 290mm X 230mm