TY  - ADVS
ED  - Kultur International Films.
TI  - Alberto Giacometti
SN  - 0769726747
PY  - 2004///
CY  - [United States]
PB  - Kultur
KW  - Giacometti, Alberto,
KW  - Sculptors
KW  - France
KW  - Biography
KW  - Existentialism
KW  - Surrealism
KW  - Minimal art
KW  - Biographical videos
N1  - Title from container; MPAA rating: Not rated
N2  - A definitive biography accompanied by spectacular images of the artist's greatest work.  At 21, Giacometti went to Paris to study with sculptor Antoine Bourdelle, who had been a student of Rodin.  Though he is often identified an Existentialist, Giacometti was initially involved with the Surrealist movement, from which he was formally expelled in the 1930s.  In the mid-1940s, he began a new phase of sculpting in which his statues became stretched out, their limbs elongated.  When these unique and startling statues were exhibited in 1948, they immediately became icons of 20th century art.  His concept of depicting the emptiness around an object had a revolutionary influence on post-modern art.  Also, his reduction of the human form to its essential elements heralded Minimalism
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