Figures of Crisis: Alberto Giacometti and the Myths of Nationalism

Author:   Joanna Fiduccia
Publisher:   Yale University Press
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9780300263183


Pages:   232
Publication Date:   31 March 2026
Format:   Hardback
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Figures of Crisis: Alberto Giacometti and the Myths of Nationalism


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Author:   Joanna Fiduccia
Publisher:   Yale University Press
Imprint:   Yale University Press
ISBN:  

9780300263183


ISBN 10:   030026318
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   31 March 2026
Audience:   General/trade ,  Professional and scholarly ,  General ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Available To Order   Availability explained
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.

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""In this eloquent account, Fiduccia gives us a newly relevant Giacometti, one whose sculptural innovations resonate not only with questions of surrealist revelation and existential space but also national and ethnic identity and their vexed visual representation in the public sphere.""—Robert Slifkin, author of The New Monuments and the End of Man “Figures of Crisis is one of the finest and most richly articulated monographic studies on Giacometti. It makes a particularly compelling case for the broader significance—artistic, cultural, and political—of his fascinating and complex sculptural oeuvre.”—Alex Potts, author of The Sculptural Imagination: Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist (Yale 2001) “Synthesizing the enormous previous scholarship on the artist, Fiduccia has deftly linked these sculptures to the rise of nationalism during the interwar period. Impressive and important.”—Susan Laxton, author of Surrealism at Play


""In this eloquent account, Fiduccia gives us a newly relevant Giacometti, one whose sculptural innovations resonate not only with questions of surrealist revelation and existential space but also national and ethnic identity and their vexed visual representation in the public sphere.""--Robert Slifkin, author of The New Monuments and the End of Man ""Figures of Crisis is one of the finest and most richly articulated monographic studies on Giacometti. It makes a particularly compelling case for the broader significance--artistic, cultural, and political--of his fascinating and complex sculptural oeuvre.""--Alex Potts, author of The Sculptural Imagination: Figurative, Modernist, Minimalist (Yale 2001) ""Synthesizing the enormous previous scholarship on the artist, Fiduccia has deftly linked these sculptures to the rise of nationalism during the interwar period. Impressive and important.""--Susan Laxton, author of Surrealism at Play


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Joanna Fiduccia is assistant professor of the history of art at Yale University.

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