{"product_id":"9781466815117","title":"Mythic Giacometti","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Swiss artist Alberto Giacometti (1901-66) was arguably the greatest sculptor of the twentieth century. He was also--as James Lord persuasively argued in \u003ci\u003eGiacometti: A Biography\u003c\/i\u003e--a heroic figure whose vocation sustained him through a life of crippling anxiety and erotic guilt. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlmost twenty years after it first appeared,\u003ci\u003e Giacometti\u003c\/i\u003e has attained the status of a classic, one of the most candid and complete biographies of an artist in our time. In \u003ci\u003eMythic Giacometti\u003c\/i\u003e, Lord reveals the hidden \"blueprint\" of that work: a daringly literal, visionary interpretation of the myth of Oedipus as it affected the conduct and outcome of Giacometti's life. The result is a case study both in the development of an artist and in the writing of biography. Lord concentrates on the private totems of Giacometti's life-family legend, childhood memory, \u003cbr\u003eillness and injury, crucial sexual encounters, intimations of mortality-that amounted, in Lord's view, to signs of a tragic destiny directly linked to the central tragedy of Western literature.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Farrar, Straus and Giroux","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47125780857072,"sku":"9781466815117","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781466815117_p0.jpg?v=1763685358","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781466815117","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}