Quotes, links and thoughts on Giacometti ( & Sartre)

https://www.moma.org/artists/2141

Existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, in fact, Giacometti's sculpture was "always halfway between nothingness and being."

http://theoria.art-zoo.com/the-search-for-the-absolute-jean-paul-sartre/

https://www.moma.org/collection/works/81779

http://dhspriory.org/kenny/PhilTexts/Sartre/BeingAndNothingness.pdf

https://kenanmalik.com/2017/07/16/sartre-on-giacometti/

http://foddering.co.uk/art-and-existentialism.html

http://www.ahandfulofleaves.org/documents/BeingAndNothingness_Sartre.pdf

http://www.giacomobutte.com/blog/?p=1346

The most profound interpretation of Giacometti's imagery can be found in two essays of Jean Paul Sartre, "The Quest for the Absolute" (1948) and "The Paintings of Giacometti" (1954), both translated into English and published in Sartre's Essays in Aesthetics (1964).

Sartre, Jean-Paul. “The Quest for the Absolute: On Giacometti’s Sculpture.” We Have Only This Life To Live. edited by Ronald Aronson and Adrian Van Den Hoven. translated by Chris Turner. New York Review Books. 2013.