Download or read book The Enigma of Giorgio de Chirico written by Margaret Crosland and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) was best known for his metaphysical paintings, but he also wrote poems, articles about art, an autobiography, and the first surrealist novel. Even more mysterious than the paintings, is the man himself: secretive, self-centered and contradictory, supercritical, ironic, and humorless, yet creative in ways he probably hardly understood. He did not share the Surrealists' overt preoccupation with the erotic, but was obsessed with memories of ancient mythology, 19th century German philosophy, metaphysics, and the secrets of creativity. With these obsessions, he tried, unconsciously, to solve the problems of his own sexuality which he concealed within. A loner, who never formally aligned himself with the Surrealists, or any other artistic movement, he produced several thousand works of art, with many changes of style. These were praised by Guillaume Apollinaire, Andre Breton, Max Ernst, and paul Eluard. He has remained one of the most baffling and memorable of those associated with the Surrealists.
Download or read book The Case of Giorgio de Chirico written by Jerry Caruana and published by Vantage Press, Inc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly and well-researched text presenting two essays intended to clarify de Chiricos life and its many ups and downs. Filled with thoughtful analysis and thought-provoking sentiments, The Case of Giorgio de Chirico will provide art lovers with new insights and answers on this enigmatic artist and his career.
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 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 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 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 Giorgio de Chirico written by James Thrall Soby and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 278 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 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 De Chirico written by Emily Braun and published by MOMA One on One Series. This book was released on 2014 with total page 47 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 Giorgio de Chirico and the Real written by Deborah Walker and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to the implacable, enigmatic nature of Giorgio de Chiricos vision, there has been numerous, conflicting interpretations of his painting. This discussion considers the artists integration of Nietzschean philosophy, particularly his perspectivism, the symbolism of Grecian myths and his enigmatic figuration. These ingredients are used as an insight into de Chirico's aesthetic achievements. The artists work is characterized by a consideration of appearance and reality; his seemingly straightforward images suggest a sense of accessibility, yet they are ultimately irreducible to knowing. His haunting images include references to both the Italian Risorgimento and Nietzsches Birth of Tragedy, and these are used in part as an interpretive framework. De Chirico's fascination with the poetic content of Nietzschean themes is particularly relevant in the light of the Apollonian-Dionysian disunity; a work that acts as a touchstone to the understanding of de Chiricos visual mystery.
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 and the Myth of Ariadne written by Michael R. Taylor and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: De Chirico's mysterious paintings had a profound influence on modern art but one key to understanding them is an early series of eight paintings on the mythical Greek princess Ariadne. This volume provides an overall account of De Chirico's career.
Download or read book Hebdomeros written by Giorgio De Chirico and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in the tense and uncertain years before the Second World War, when America was still largely conflicted about entering the war on either side, Andrew Rosenheim's thriller Fear Itself offers a rich depiction of history as it was--and as it might have been. Jimmy Nessheim, a young Special Agent in the fledgling FBI, is assigned to infiltrate a new German-American organization known as the Bund. Ardently pro-Nazi, the Bund is conspiring to sabotage American efforts against Adolf Hitler. But as Nessheim's investigation takes him into the very heart of the Bund, it becomes increasingly clear that something far more sinister is at work, something that seems to lead directly to the White House. Drawn into the center of Washington's high society, Nessheim finds himself caught up in a web of political intrigue and secret lives. But as he moves closer to the truth, an even more lethal plot emerges, one that could rewrite history. With sharp wit and a keen eye for period details, Rosenheim fully immerses the reader in Depression-era America. He seamlessly weaves into the narrative larger-than-life figures such as J. Edgar Hoover, Clyde Tolson, and Lucy Mercer Rutherford, as well as historical events like the 1939 pro-Nazi rally held at New York City's Madison Square Garden. The first in a series chronicling Agent Nessheim's adventures throughout the war, Fear Itself establishes Andrew Rosenheim as a spectacular new talent.
Download or read book Giorgio de Chirico written by Giorgio de Chirico and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book De Chirico Ediz inglese written by Magdalena Holzhey and published by Taschen America Llc. This book was released on 2005 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.
