Acknowledgements
List of figures
List of contributors
Introduction / by Peter Read
1. From "Vue d'atelier" to "Vie d'atelier" : 46 rue Hippolyte-Maindron and the beginnings of Giacometti / Jon Wood
2. Giacometti's objects : poetry, childhood,and the neurotic theatre of projection / Michael Stone-Richards
3. Giacometti's break with surrealism : abstraction, Hegelianism, and the communicating vase / Robin Spencer
4. Giacometti and the Kauffmann tomb / Casimiro Di Crescenzo
5. Giacometti's Geneva period (1941-1945) : the birth of new sculpture / Thierry Dufrene
6. Giacometti and the basis of sculpture / Alex Potts
7. Alberto Giacometti, Michel Leiris, and the myths of existentialism / Julia Kelly
8. From spectre to sceptre : Giacometti's sculpture in the writing of Francis Ponge / Peter Read
9. "An unknown country" : Isaku Yanaihara's Giacometti diaries / Akihiko Takeda
10. Giacometti in Fez / Sarah Wilson
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Giacometti : critical essays. ISBN 9780754654469. Published by Ashgate in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.