本书探讨了精选出来的阿尔贝托•贾科梅蒂（Alberto Giacometti）得素描作品，并在贾科梅蒂和他的父母之间交换了一百多封信的背景下对这些画进行了研究，其中大多数信件以前都未出版过。素描的选择和选择的通信阐明了贾科梅蒂在他生命的五十年中作品发展的重要方面。 此外，帕特里克•德•弗里斯（Patrick de Vries）考察了阿尔贝托•贾科梅蒂（Alberto Giacometti）与重要的当代艺术家（如帕勃罗•毕加索，弗朗西斯•格鲁伯，巴尔特斯和塔尔•科特）的友谊，并揭示了艺术家们彼此的看法以及彼此之间的联系和异同。 与贾科梅蒂的朋友，日本哲学家Isaku Yanaihara的讨论，揭示了贾科梅蒂对东亚艺术着迷的有趣见解。

This book looks at a refined selection of drawings by Alberto Giacometti and examines them against the background provided by more than one hundred letters exchanged between Giacometti and his parents, the majority of which have not previously been published. The choice of drawings and the selected correspondence illuminate important aspects of the development of Giacometti’s work over five decades of his life. Furthermore, Patrick de Vries examines Alberto Giacometti’s friendships with important contemporary artists such as Pablo Picasso, Francis Gruber, Balthus, and Tal-Coat, and discloses the artists’ views of each other, as well as links and dissimilarities in their work. Discussions with Giacometti’s friend, the Japanese philosopher Isaku Yanaihara, reveal interesting insights into the, rarely discussed, subject of Giacometti’s fascination with East Asian Art.