The Enigma Of Giorgio De Chirico

Author : Margaret Crosland
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015049994935

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The Enigma of Giorgio de Chirico by Margaret Crosland Pdf

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.

Author : Keala Jewell
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0271047356

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Art of Enigma by Keala Jewell Pdf

Biography of these artist and writer brothers that places them within the context of myth, history, and Italian culture politics.

Author : Jerry Caruana
Publisher : Vantage Press, Inc
Page : 60 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 053315748X

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The Case of Giorgio de Chirico by Jerry Caruana Pdf

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.

Author : Philip Guston,Giorgio De Chirico,Michael R. Taylor,Lisa Melandri
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 63 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Painting, American
ISBN : 0974510823

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Enigma Variations by Philip Guston,Giorgio De Chirico,Michael R. Taylor,Lisa Melandri Pdf

Author : Wieland Schmied
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015056677092

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Giorgio de Chirico by Wieland Schmied Pdf

A study of the art of Giorgio de Chirico, inventor of a symbolic style which had a strong influence on 20th-century art, this text focuses on the artist's mysterious representations of the human form.

Author : V. S. Naipaul
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307744036

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The Enigma of Arrival by V. S. Naipaul Pdf

The Nobel Prize-winning author distills his wide experience of countries and peoples into a moving account of the rites of passage endured by all people and all communities undergoing change or decay. • "Naipaul's finest work." —Chicago Tribune "A subtly incisive self-reckoning." —The Washington Post Book World The story of a writer’s singular journey – from one place to another, and from one state of mind to another. At the midpoint of the century, the narrator leaves the British colony of Trinidad and comes to the ancient countryside of England. And from within the story of this journey – of departure and arrival, alienation and familiarity, home and homelessness – the writer reveals how, cut off from his “first” life in Trinidad, he enters a “second childhood of seeing and learning.” Clearly autobiographical, yet woven through with remarkable invention, The Enigma of Arrival is as rich and complex as any novel we have had from this exceptional writer. "The conclusion is both heart-breaking and bracing: the only antidote to destruction—of dreams, of reality—is remembering. As eloquently as anyone now writing, Naipaul remembers." —Time "Far and away the most curious novel I've read in a long time, and maybe the most hypnotic book I've ever read." —St. Petersburg Times

Author : James Thrall Soby
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UOM:39015013188464

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Giorgio de Chirico by James Thrall Soby Pdf

Author : Gimferrer, Pere
Publisher : Rizzoli International Publications
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Architecture
ISBN : UOM:39015018343452

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DeChirico by Gimferrer, Pere Pdf

Surveys the style, inspiration, and works of the metaphysical painter De Chirico.

Author : Deborah Walker
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015080713566

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Giorgio de Chirico and the Real by Deborah Walker Pdf

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.

Author : Ara H. Merjian
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 0300176597

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Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City by Ara H. Merjian Pdf

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.

Author : Giorgio De Chirico,Werner Helwig
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1962
Category : Art, Italian
ISBN : IND:30000154048304

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De Chirico by Giorgio De Chirico,Werner Helwig Pdf

Author : Giorgio De Chirico
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Art
ISBN : UOM:39015017509707

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The Memoirs of Giorgio de Chirico by Giorgio De Chirico Pdf

Author : Paolo Baldacci,Giorgio De Chirico
Publisher : Bulfinch Press
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Art
ISBN : 0821224999

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De Chirico by Paolo Baldacci,Giorgio De Chirico Pdf

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.

Author : Magdalena Holzhey
Publisher : Taschen America Llc
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Art
ISBN : 3822841528

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De Chirico. Ediz. inglese by Magdalena Holzhey Pdf

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.

Author : Giorgio De Chirico
Publisher : AJ Publishing Company
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015028575820

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Hebdomeros by Giorgio De Chirico Pdf