书名：Figures of Crisis: Alberto Giacometti and the Myths of Nationalism / 危机人物：阿尔贝托·贾科梅蒂与民族主义的神话
定价：460.0
ISBN：9780300263183
作者：Joanna Fiduccia
版次：1
出版时间：2026-03

内容提要：

题 目：Figures of Crisis: Alberto Giacometti and the Myths of Nationalism / 危机人物：阿尔贝托·贾科梅蒂与民族主义的神话

作 者：Joanna Fiduccia

出 版：Yale University Press，2026

装 帧：精装，232页

语 种：英文

尺 寸：20.3*25.4*2 cm

 

 

对二十世纪艺术巨匠及其雕塑与现代欧洲民族主义危机之关系的一次重要重估。

1935年，瑞士艺术家阿尔贝托·贾科梅蒂（1901–1966）突然放弃了超现实主义实验，转而全身心投入肖像胸像和微型人像的雕塑创作，其中许多人像不过指甲大小。乔安娜·菲杜恰追溯了贾科梅蒂这一著名艺术危机的起源与发展脉络，揭示了这场危机与现代欧洲更为广泛的民族身份危机之间的关联。在这长达十年的过渡时期，他作品的核心特征——动荡不安的表面、令人不安的普遍性、极度缩小的尺幅以及强迫性的重复——不仅为战后其标志性雕塑奠定了基础，也赋予了社会崩坏与战争经验以具体形态。菲杜恰将“危机”既理解为一种与不确定性不可化约的遭遇，也视为冲突趋于明晰的过程，并由此重新构想这批零碎而不起眼的作品——它们既是艺术家职业生涯的关键阶段，也是现代雕塑史上的重要篇章。这部通过贾科梅蒂时代的哲学、政治与美学思想讲述的全新论述，揭示了民族主义意识形态如何催生了现代主义核心处的自我问题。

 

A major reevaluation of a towering figure in twentieth-century art and the relationship of his sculpture to the crisis of nationalism in modern Europe.

In 1935, Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901–1966) abruptly abandoned his surrealist experiments and devoted himself to sculpting portrait busts and minuscule figurines, many no larger than a fingernail. Joanna Fiduccia traces the origins and progression of Giacometti’s notorious artistic crisis, revealing its connection to a broader crisis of national identity in modern Europe. In this decade-long interval, the central features of his artworks—their turbulent surfaces, unsettling generality, severely reduced scale, and compulsive repetition—gave form to the experience of social breakdown and war, even as they laid the groundwork for his iconic postwar sculpture. Pursuing a concept of crisis as both an irreducible encounter with uncertainty and the clarification of a conflict, Fiduccia reimagines this fragmentary and inconspicuous body of work as the pivotal phase in the artist’s career as well as a vital episode in the history of modern sculpture. This fresh account, told through the philosophical, political, and aesthetic thought of Giacometti’s time, shows how ideologies of nationalism helped generate the problems of selfhood at the heart of modernism.