Giacometti/Sade. Cruels objets du désir. Numismatique voire d’une civilisation

voire d’une civilisation

"early Ptolemaic and "late Ptolemaic" while taking into account regional differences (Upper Egypt

The tradition of allegorical exegesis remained alive until the Byzantine era and until the Renaissance

nous découvrons les portraits de dieux bougons

approaching that part of the inexpressible and the unspeakable that

Giacometti/Sade. Cruels objets du désir. Numismatique voire d’une civilisationIn 1933, Alberto Giacometti wrote to Andr Breton: "Yesterday I read Sade, who fascinates me greatly." In the 1930s, Giacometti created objects with a symbolic function, imbued with the imagination of a violent eroticism similar to that of the writings of DAF de Sade. The era was one of the rehabilitation of the divine Marquis, a model of freedom and modernity for artists and writers. The libertine philosopher fascinated Giacometti and his friends,