Scheidegger & Spiess New Titles Autumn 2016

Although he is best known for his signature bronze sculptures, Alberto Giacometti
(1901–66) worked in a variety of other media such as marble, plaster, and wood.
Plaster was of particularly great importance to Giacometti’s work. It offered many
advantages as a medium, the foremost being that it allowed the artist to rework or
repaint his sculptures in a variety of ways. More than an intermediate stage between
clay model and bronze cast, plaster was therefore often regarded by Giacometti as a
primary medium, and many of his works exist only in plaster.
Alberto Giacometti—Beyond Bronze is based on a gift by Bruno Giacometti of seventy-five
plaster sculptures to Kunsthaus Zürich, where they have been extensively
restored and researched. With more than two hundred illustrations, including many
in large format and full color, the book features masterpieces from every stage of
Giacometti’s career. Apart from the book’s main focus—the place of plaster in the
artist’s oeuvre—it also includes works in marble, bronze, and wood. Together, these
sculptures show how Giacometti approached the material properties of the different
media and offer insight into the creative process of one of the twentieth century’s
greatest artists.
Published to accompany a major exhibition at Kunsthaus Zürich, Alberto Giacometti—Beyond
Bronze celebrates a lesser-known, yet fundamentally important aspect
of the artist’s work.
Scheidegger & Spiess
Art I Photography I Architecture
Sheds fresh light on fundamental
aspects of Giacometti’s technique
and choice of material in
sculpture
Focuses on Giacometti’s artistic
approach to the material nature
of his chosen media, offering an
insight into the creative process
Based on years of extensive research
and restoration work on
seventy-five plasters held at Kunsthaus
Zürich
Exhibition: Kunsthaus Zürich, 28
October 2016 to 15 January 2017
Bookstore location
Art
Audience
Anyone interested in modern art;
academic libraries
Alberto Giacometti – Beyond Bronze
Edited by Kunsthaus Zürich
Essays by Philippe Büttner,
Casimiro Di Crescenzo, Catherine
Grenier, Tobias Haupt, Christian
Klemm, Kerstin Mürer, and
Stefan Zweifel
Hardback, 240 pages
approx. 243 color and 18 b/w
illustrations
22 × 27 cm (9 × 11 in)
978-3-85881-785-3 English
978-3-85881-786-0 French
Price: sFr. 59.00 | € 58.00
£ 40.00 | $ 59.00
Kunsthaus Zürich is home to one
of the most important art collections
in Europe, including one of
the world’s largest and most significant
collections of Giacometti’s
work in sculpture, drawing, and
painting.
NOVEMBER 2016 (Europe)
FEBRUARY 2017 (US)
3