TY - BOOK AU - Renucci,Franck TI - Giacometti’s Homme qui marche: an icon for Hermès PY - 2023///. N1 - 68 N2 - Alberto Giacometti’s sculpture Homme qui marche is an icon of the twentieth century. Could it also be viewed as an iconic representation of humanity, communication, and incommunication, as these are explored in Hermès? Does it not reveal what evades being communicated, which is also what enables communication to exist? Giacometti’s work calls to mind a steadfast and unalterable desire to live. As in Egyptian art, Homme qui marche bears witness to a truth, to an idea about life that transcends time and space: standing tall, striding forward, the figure of a freedom that is absolute UR - https://shs.cairn.info/journal-hermes-la-revue-2023-1-page-168?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080 ER -