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Swiss sculptor and painter (1901–1966)

Also known as: Альберто Джакометти, ألبرتو جياكوميتي, 알베르토 자코메티, アルベルト・ジャコメッティ, 阿尔贝托·贾科梅蒂, Джакометти А.

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His essay on Giacometti's studio meditates on solitude, wounds and the gaze in a lyrical, intense prose that matches Giacometti's own writings on art. (AI reason)
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His sitting-by-sitting account of a portrait being made records doubt, failure and the struggle of perception, the same subjects Giacometti writes about. (AI reason)
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His existentialist essays on art, including 'The Search for the Absolute', take up distance, emptiness and human presence. (AI reason)
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His poetry and art criticism look for presence and immediacy and return often to Giacometti's search for reality. (AI reason)
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His spare, stripped-down writing about endurance and failing again echoes the attenuated figures and unending dissatisfaction in Giacometti's notes. (AI reason)
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Michel Leiris1901–1990
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His surrealist-inflected autobiographical and ethnographic prose shares the dream accounts and introspective candour of Giacometti's early texts. (AI reason)
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André du Bouchet1924–2001
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His fragmentary poetry of space, whiteness and sight is close to Giacometti's concern with seeing and emptiness. (AI reason)
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His dense poetry and studio texts on artists explore the tension of making and looking. (AI reason)
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