{"product_id":"the-cube-and-the-face-georges-didi-huberman-9783037345207","title":"The Cube and the Face: Around a Sculpture by Alberto Giacometti","description":"Alberto Giacometti's 1934\u003ci\u003e Cube\u003c\/i\u003e stands apart for many as atypical of the Swiss artist, the only abstract sculptural work in a wide oeuvre that otherwise had as its objective the exploration of reality. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e With \u003ci\u003eThe Cube and the Face, \u003c\/i\u003e renowned French art historian and philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman has conducted a careful analysis of \u003ci\u003eCube, \u003c\/i\u003e consulting the artist's sketches, etchings, texts, and other sculptural works in the years just before and after \u003ci\u003eCube \u003c\/i\u003ewas created. \u003ci\u003eCube, \u003c\/i\u003e he finds, is indeed exceptional--a work without clear stylistic kinship to the works that came before or after it. At the same time, Didi-Huberman shows, \u003ci\u003eCube\u003c\/i\u003e marks the transition between the artist's surrealist and realist phases and contains many elements of Giacometti's aesthetic consciousness, including his interest in dimensionality, the relation of the body to geometry, and the portrait--or what Didi-Huberman terms \"abstract anthropomorphism.\" Drawing on Freud, Bataille, Leiris, and others Giacometti counted as influence, Didi-Huberman presents fans and collectors of Giacometti's art with a new approach to transitional work.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Georges Didi-Huberman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3037345209\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783037345207\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Diaphanes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/15\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.05lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.80h x 5.50w x 0.90d","brand":"Georges Didi-Huberman","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48066359787775,"sku":"9783037345207","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a4e47401-da3d-451a-adf8-61336e72b4b4.jpg?v=1768678150","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-cube-and-the-face-georges-didi-huberman-9783037345207","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}