Please join us to celebrate the launch of art historian Joanna Fiduccia's new book, Figures of Crisis: Alberto Giacometti and the Myths of Nationalism (Yale University Press, 2026). Fiduccia will be joined by art historian Alex Kitnick to discuss the book, which offers a bold rethinking of Alberto Giacometti’s sculpture.
Please RSVP to rsvp@swissinstitute.net.
Joanna Fiduccia is an art historian and critic. She teaches the history of European and North American modern art at Yale University.
Alex Kitnick is Associate Professor of Art History and Visual Culture at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, New York. His book Distant Early Warning: Marshall McLuhan and the Transformation of the Avant-Garde was published by University of Chicago Press in 2021. His criticism appears in publications ranging from October to May.
