Alberto Giacometti: the art of relation

Alberto Giacometti's attenuated figures of the human form are among the most significant artistic images of the 20th century.

In this book, Timothy Mathews explores the themes of fragility, trauma, space, and relationality in Giacometti's art and the texts that respond or refer to them: the novels of W.G.

Sebald, Samuel Beckett and Cees Nooteboom, and the theories of Bertolt Brecht, which recasts the iconic L'Homme qui marche as Walter Benjamin's Angel of History.