Audio Tour Stop 16

No More Play, Alberto Giacometti

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阿尔贝托·贾科梅蒂的超现实主义雕塑家当中备受尊重的一位，正如这尊《不再玩游戏》雕塑一样，他经常把游戏主题融入到他早期的作品中。贾科梅蒂在这里塑造的形态类似于棋盘游戏，不过虽然有可移动的棋子，但游戏的性质并不明朗。这尊雕塑中表现的游戏不仅空间迷离，规则也不可知，使游戏更像是梦中的情景。

No More Play (Chinese)
Carved from a slab of white marble, the top surface of this sculpture is covered with shallow, cuplike and deep rectangular depressions of various sizes. We look slightly down onto the slab in this photograph. The surface is divided into three vertical sections, which are defined by incised lines. The cuplike depressions are in the sections to the left and right. Two tiny, carved, dark wooden objects, like game pieces, stand upright in a cup with one the left and one to the right. Each piece is flat with a symmetrical design and a point at the bottom that inserts into the cup. The left piece has a disk flanked by triangular protrusions with a clover shape at top. The second piece has four stacked, small circles, and a U-shaped form to suggest the outline of a person with raised arms. Three smaller but deep rectangular cavities are carved into the middle section, and each one has a lid. Two lids sit askew on the top surface of the board near their respective openings, and inside are additional wooden pieces. A blank, rectangular section outlined with lightly inscised lines in the lower right is carved with reversed script letters that read, “on ne joue plus.” The entire surface has beveled edges, so it sits on a stepped base.
Alberto Giacometti, No More Play, 1931-1932, marble, wood, and bronze, Gift of The Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Collection, Dallas, Texas, in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the National Gallery of Art, 1991.40.1

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