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...archaeologists had been puzzled by the great numbers of small, geometric clay tokens-some as old as 10,000 years-discovered in digs from Egypt to the Indus Valley. Several experts had speculated that these tokens were toys or pieces from a still undiscovered prehistoric game. In 1966 Pierre Amiet, curator of Near Eastern art at the Louvre, suggested that the tokens were an ancient recording system. Schmandt-Besserat agrees. After comparing the tokens with samples of early writing discovered in Warka, a community in Mesopotamia (modern Iraq), she concluded that they were part of a sophisticated system of record...
...funded by a grant from the Alcoa and Pro Helvetia Foundations - entitled Three Swiss Painters. This is the first detailed look the U.S. public has had at the work of Giacometti's family circle of gifted painters, who surrounded him with protective confidence. They are his godfather Cuno Amiet (1868-1961), his cousin Augusto Giacometti (1877-1947), and his father Giovanni (1868-1933), a forceful colorist who in 1915 recorded the 14-year-old Alberto's intense features in a fluent idiom derived from Cezanne. There can be few other artists who had the luck to grow...
...work of Amiet and Augusto Giacometti, in particular, comes as a revelation. Augusto Giacometti seems to be one of the claimants to the honor of having produced the first deliberately abstract works of art. His wavy-edged pastel, Abstraction After a Stained-Glass Window in the Cluny Museum, dates from 1900, fully a decade before the mutual creation of abstract art by Larionov, Kupka, Kandinsky and Arthur Dove. Amiet's work, though less aggressively avantgarde, is also of more than parochial quality. After his early apprenticeship with Gauguin's disciples in the Pont-Aven group, he never lost...
BUSCH-REISINGER Three Swiss Painters, Giovanni Giacometti, Augusto Giacometti, Cuno Amiet, Feb. 2-March 9 FOGG Shah' Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan, through...
BUSCH-REISINGER Three Swiss Painters, Giovanni Giacometti, Augusto Giacometti, Cuno Amiet, Feb. 2-March 9 FOGG Shah' Abbas and the Arts of Isfahan, through...
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