Fine art: The sculptor who saw the body at its sparest

Giacometti
Tate Modern, London, until September 10

In one important sense Alberto Giacometti was his own worst enemy. The stick-thin human forms he created during his post-war years in Paris, with titles such as Walking Man, Man Pointing and Tall Woman, have since become such signature works for the Swiss sculptor as to obscure practically everything else in his creative output. Hence the current exhibition at Tate Modern does both him and us a valuable service in exploring a range of perspectives stretching beyond those famous – or notorious – attenuated figures.