In addition to poets who paint and painters who write poetry - like Alberto Giacometti in earlier years - there are poets who write about painters: for example, the Frenchman Jean Genet. He regularly met with Alberto Giacometti (1901-1966) in his studio. What he experienced and thought during these encounters he captured in the form of a dialogue. The external conversation took place in the studio between the sculptor and painter and the writer, while the internal dialogue occurred between Genet and Giacometti's work. The result is a virtuosic weave of observations and thoughts, as well as comments or responses from Alberto Giacometti. In this way, Genet captured Giacometti's quest for the perfect work and simultaneously revealed his own emotions and the fascination that the works of this great artist evoked in him. Alberto Giacometti is the first book that Ernst Scheidegger published as a publisher. His portraits are among the best photographs of Alberto Giacometti ever taken.