Böcker av Alberto Giacometti

"I'm no longer frightenedno more fright,before I used to trembleevening, nightdeath always haunted me,tormented me, nownothing, it's worse it'sterrifying, this calm"Including the following texts and extracts by Alberto Giacometti:"The dream, the Sphinx, and the death of T.""Enquiry on the encounter""Coal of grass""The brown curtain""Poems in 7 spaces""Yesterday, quicksands""Outside all control...""Splinter of sphere of the golden apple""Fear, death undulant crystalline...""Lulu, Lulu!¿...""Fragile fragile canopy of glass..."

"Is a copy anything but an attempt to extract the maximum from an encounter with a work of art? I'm convinced that the copy of a masterpiece is the best school there is for any artist who decides to make art."Including the following texts by Alberto Giacometti:"Notes on the copies"Extract from a conversation with Gotthard Jedlicka"At the Louvre with Giacometti"A conversation with Pierre Schneider"For 15 days now..."Extract from a conversation with André Parinaud"Is Greek art modern?"A conversation with Georges Charbonnier

"If I had some advice to give to a young painter, I would tell him to start by copying an apple."Including the following texts by Alberto Giacometti:"Fragments of a diary"In conversation with Gotthard Jedlicka"I certainly practise painting...""Grey, brown, black...""Braque has just died""Portrait of an artist" GiacomettiIn conversation with Alain Jouffroy"The painter's monologue"In conversation with Georges Charbonnier"I go against the flow"In conversation with Marie-Thérèse Maugis