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...suggestively cranking a grinder between her knees — star in the velvety, fluid “Matter and Memory”, published in late 1944 with a preface by surrealist poet Francis Ponge....
...His friends included the French poet Francis Ponge and the painter Yves Tanguy, his gallerist in New York was Pierre Matisse, while his numerous texts about the relationship between art and identity reveal...
...For Francis Ponge, Giacometti evoked the idea of “man – and man alone – reduced to a thread – in the ruinous condition, the misery of the world – who looks for himself, starting from nothing....
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