While best-known for his spindly, attenuated figures,Giacometti also created brilliant work in two dimensions. Thisbook offers a scholarly assessment of his entire oeuvre andunderscores the continuity between the two phases of his career:the pre-1935 works, which included his Surrealist sculptures,and his post-war masterpieces. It details Giacometti s artisticcrisis, when he returned to working from the model and brokewith the Surrealists, and reveals how he began tackling theproblem of situating figures in space in an entirely new way.This book discusses the relationship between his two- andthree-dimensional works, showing Giacometti to have been asgreat a painter as he was a sculptor. Featuring extraordinaryimages of the artist at work, this book includes photographs byHenri Cartier-Bresson, Ugo Mulas, and Man Ray.