"Alberto Giacometti and the Surrealists"

Mark Harden's Artchive: "Alberto Giacometti and the Surrealists"

Since I was thinking about Giacometti in that last post, I remembered this essay, "No More Play" by Rosalind Krauss, which I read in college. The essay is from her book, "The Originality of the Avant-Garde and Other Modernist Myths", which is linked to at the beginning of this essay. The entire essay is not here unfortunately, but it's a fantastic read if you are interested in this sort of thing. Rosalind Krauss's essays were a fixture in many architecture professor's studios at the University of Kentucky during the 90s. This essay generally deals with the processes of creation: the additive and subtractive, the relationship between the primal and the refined in art. Even this short excerpt has enough thought provoking concepts to keep you musing for hours.

As a future father, the sections referring to the art of children are particularly intersting this time around. Anyway, I thought I'd share a rediscovered gem with anybody reading the previous post and wanting to know more about the concept I was alluding to.