Download or read book Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City written by Ara H. Merjian and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Painted in Paris on the eve of World War One, the Metaphysical cityscapes of Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) redirected the course of modernist painting and the modern architectural imagination alike. Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City examines the two most salient dimensions of the artist’s early imagery: its representations of architectural space and its sustained engagement with the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. Centering upon a single painting from 1914 – deemed by the painter “the fatal year” – each chapter examines why and how de Chirico’s self-declared “Nietzschean method” takes architecture as its pictorial means and metaphor. The first, full-length study in English to focus on the painter’s seminal work from pre-war Paris, the book places de Chirico’s “literary” images back in the context of the city’s avant-garde, particularly the circle of Guillaume Apollinaire. Merjian’s study sheds light on one of the most influential and least understood figures in 20th-century aesthetics, while also contributing to an understanding of Nietzsche’s paradoxical consequences for modernism.
Download or read book Urban Untimely written by Ara Hagop Merjian and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 838 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A substantial introductory chapter examines changes in de Chirico's painting after his arrival in Paris in 1911. I pay close attention to these pictures' mounting ambivalences between narrative and abstraction, architectural coherence and spatial disorientation, inhabitable depth and radical flatness. These vacillating registers derive, I argue, from de Chirico's affinities for philosophical and "literary" themes, as well as his attendant, oblique engagement with the pictorial language of Parisian modernism (particularly Cubism and abstraction).
Download or read book Geometry of Shadows written by Giorgio De Chirico and published by Public Space Books, A. This book was released on 2019-10 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gathered from early twentieth-century Italian magazines, manuscripts, correspondence, television recordings, and ephemeral art volumes, Geometry of Shadows is the first comprehensive collection of Giorgio de Chirico's Italian poetry, with award-winning poet Stefania Heim's translations presented alongside the Italian originals.
Download or read book Giorgio de Chirico and America written by Giorgio De Chirico and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Giorgio De Chirico and the Myth of Ariadne written by Philadelphia Museum of Art and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hebdomeros written by Giorgio De Chirico and published by AJ Publishing Company. This book was released on 1988 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Surrealism and Architecture written by Thomas Mical and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-one essays examining the relationship of surrealist thought to architectural theory and practice.
Download or read book Giorgio de Chirico written by Giorgio De Chirico and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Giorgio de Chirico written by Victoria Noel-Johnson and published by Skira Editore. This book was released on 2019-07-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative analysis of the artistic poetics of the master of metaphysical painting. Through a selection of important works made during this master's career, this volume aims to conduct a critical revision of the artist's complex practice for the centenary of his so-called volte-face in 1919, the year he was criticised for leaving metaphysical painting (1910-1918) in favour of styles and techniques inspired by Classicism and the grand masters. Edited by the most important experts of De Chirico, The Face of Metaphysics promotes an innovative interpretation of the artist's oeuvre (both metaphysical, where the traditional confines of linear time and space are replaced by the doctrine of cyclical coexistence); an arrangement according to themes and not chronology underlines the idea that, despite the many changes in style, technique and subject, composition and colour tone, all of De Chirico's works may offer tangible visions of the intangible philosophical concept of Metaphysics, advanced by Nietzsche in the late 1800s: constant metaphysics. Divided into six sections (The Eternal Return; Metaphysical Exteriors; Metaphysical Protagonists; Metaphysical Interiors; Metaphysical nature; Metaphysics Encounters Tradition), this volume gathers around 90 works from some of the most prestigious private museums and collections in Italy and from the Fondazione de Chirico and also offers a rich core of archive documents including letters, period photos and exhibition catalogues.
Download or read book The Memoirs Of Giorgio De Chirico written by Giorgio De Chirico and published by Da Capo Press. This book was released on 1994-03-22 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) recounts his early upbringing in Greece and first instruction in drawing at the Athens Polytechnic, his studies in Munich, his impressions of Italy, and his 1911 move to Paris. He relates vivid anecdotes of various Paris artists and personalities, notably Apollinaire, Cocteau, Derain, and Paul Guillaume, giving the key to incidents in Hebdomeros. He describes his sevice in the Italian Army in the First World War, his return to Paris, his association with the surrealist movement, and his subsequent disillusionment and self-isolation.
Download or read book Ba de Chirico written by Magdalena Holzhey and published by Taschen. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greek-born Italian painter Giorgio De Chirico (1888-1978) was hugely influential in the early years of the Surrealist movement. His paintings during the teens in Paris, where he moved in 1911, caused such a stir that such important figures as Picasso and Paul Eluard immediately praised them. This phase of his work, which he later termed pittura metafisica (metaphysical painting) was marked by dramatic compositions involving sharp perspective, striking shadows, geometrical planes, voids of space, and a general feeling of anxiety and loneliness; the sense of absurdity evoked by the mannequin-like figures in almost nightmarish landscapes seemed to suggest a Freudian expression of the unconscious. After 1930, De Chirico turned to a more classical style of painting and continued in the same vein for the rest of his career; his later work was widely criticized, especially by the Surrealists who had so admired his early paintings.
Download or read book De Chirico written by Emily Braun and published by Museum of Modern Art. This book was released on 2014 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The unexpected encounter of a rubber glove, a green ball, and the head from the classical statue gives rise to one of the most compelling paintings in the history of modernist art: Giorgio de Chirico's Song of Love (1914). This uncanny image exemplifies what de Chirico called 'metaphysical' painting, which creates a disturbing sense of unreality, outside the usual logics of space and time, through the novel depiction of ordinary things. Emily Braun's essay explores the work's enigmatic motifs, showing how their roots range from the ancient culture of the Mediterranean, through the commercial scenarios de Chirico observed in the streets of Paris in the years around World War I, to the work of the avant-garde painters and poets of the time. The Song of Love continues to captivate viewers as de Chirico intended, even a century after it was made." - Back cover.
Download or read book Rome the Second Time written by Dianne Bennett and published by Curious Traveler Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Designed for the tourist seeking a fresh, authentic, Roman experience, this intimate, stimulating guide explores Rome's splendid modern architecture, its bustling close-in neighborhoods, and its rivers, magnificent fountains, and aqueducts. Itineraries take the reader to Fascist and occupied Rome of World War II, the nearby Alban Hills, and the Eternal City's lesser-known green spaces. Innovative chapters feature cultural and artistic Rome, including art galleries, jazz clubs, film locations, and rooftop bars--even places that offer a sumptuous (and free) "vernissage" of wine and hors d'oeuvres. With Bill and Dianne as guides-their voices part of the experience-the curious traveler will discover a housing project built under Mussolini; ascend a little-known holy Roman road on the city's outskirts; spend an evening in the out-of-the-way, artsy neighborhood of Pigneto; enjoy a trattoria where only Italians eat; and, among the book's many informative, creative "sidebars," find in one the troubling story of Rome's Jewish community, and in another locate sites in "Angels & Demons." 16 maps, 70 photos, an index, and detailed directions and instructions (including websites) make this "new" Rome easily accessible. For the frugally-minded, at times adventurous (at times armchair) traveler. Foreword by Rome Mayor Walter Veltroni.
Download or read book De Chirico written by Paolo Baldacci and published by Bulfinch Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The self-named metaphysical painting of early 20th-century painter Giogio de Chirico continues to haunt modern art. Paolo Baldacci's long-awaited monograph follows de Chirico and his work from his birth through his student years in Paris to his return to Italy. Baldacci details the development of de Chirico's mature style and reveals the many biographical elements of his paintings. 250 color and 150 b&w illustrations.
Download or read book Symbols of Time in the History of Art written by Christian Heck and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: C. Heck and K. Lippincott, Symbols of Time in the History of Art: Introduction; A. Acres, Small Physical History: Trickling Past of Early Netherlandish Painting; B. Winston Blackmun, 'From Time Immemorial': Historicism in the Court art of Benin, Nigeria; S. Blumenroder, Andrea Mantegna's Grisaille Paintings: Colour Metamorphosis as a Metaphor for History; K. Enz Finken, An Early Christian Construction of Time: Salvation History in the Catacomb of Callistus in Rome; M. Wellington Gahtan, Notions of Past and Future in Italian Renaissance Art and Letters; P. Gerrish Nunn, Time and Tide wait for no man: a Victorian apocalypse; J. M. Greenstein, Faces in Time: Temporalities of the Sitter in Renaissance Portraits; J. Berger Hochstrasser, Goede Dingen Willen Tijt Hebben: Time as a Meditation on Painting in Dutch Still Life of the Seventeenth Century; P. Junod, Figures du Temps au siecle de l'histoire; W. Pullan, Death and Praxis in the Funerary Architecture of Mamluk Cairo; S. Sun, The Symbols of Seasonal Changes from Winter to Spring in East Asian Paintings; D. Motycka Weston, 'The Hour of the Enigma': The Phenomenal Temporality in the Metaphysical Painting of Giorgio de Chirico.
Download or read book Giorgio de Chirico written by Robert Pincus-Witten and published by Robert Miller Gallery. This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 15 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Metaphysics of Silence written by Lucio Giuliodori and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2019-06-25 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many are the philosophical implications which enfold De Chirico's Metaphysical art. Therefore, the viewer is inevitably involved in what we could define as a metaphysical journey, where thinkers such as Nietzsche and Schopenhauer are essential pillars. Through his unsetting, uncanny, beautiful art, De Chirico aspires to unveil the secret essence of things, concealed behind the surface accessible to us through the senses. To this regard his art is utterly philosophical, his pictures are investigations of the unknown, they don't describe, they inquire and by doing this they floor us as they dwell on that mysterious yet familiar limbo sited between ordinary and extraordinary reality, logic and absurd, physics and metaphysics. If surrealists were focused on what dwelled within, De Chirico was totally concerned about the perceivable world: too easy spotting an enigma in the world of dreams, even banal, much more intriguing, on a philosophical level, is trying to depict it on the things we look at with our own eyes. The Italian artist managed to do this in a wonderful way and this book concerns the marvellous path he undertook, underpinned on a constant, powerful, extraordinary combination of art and knowledge.
