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Sunday Feature: Giacometti and the Museum of Humanity

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Joe Kerr revisits the life of sculptor Alberto Giacometti on the centenary of his birth. At the height of Giacometti's fame in the fifties, his stick-men sculptures were celebrated around the world as a defining image of the human condition. Today, they stand in almost every national art gallery around the globe. Do they still project a timeless and universal message about human life?

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Joe Kerr
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