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Giorgio de Chirico: The Changing Face of Metaphysical Art

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Edited with text by Victoria Noel-Johnson.

The first overview in decades of the eerie allegories of de Chirico, forefather of surrealism and genius of uncanny connections

Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 264 pgs / 209 color. | 8/20/2019 | In stock
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De Chirico: The Song of Love

THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
Text by Emily Braun.

Pbk, 7.25 x 9 in. / 48 pgs / 35 color. | 3/31/2014 | In stock
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Hebdomeros & Other Writings

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By Giorgio de Chirico. Introduction by John Ashbery. Translated by John Ashbery, Mark Polizzotti, et al.

One of the most revered and acclaimed products of Surrealism, de Chirico's sole novel provides a uniquely literary analogue to his painterly scenarios

Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 280 pgs. | 2/2/2004 | Out of stock
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Giorgio de Chirico: Myth and Archaelogy

SILVANA EDITORIALE
Text by Renato Miracco, Franco Calarota, Claudio Bisogniero, Dorothy Kosinski, Francesco Vezzoli.

Pbk, 9 x 11 in. / 104 pgs / 40 color / 15 bw. | 7/31/2013 | Not available
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Giorgio de Chirico: A Metaphysical Journey

WALTHER KöNIG, KöLN
Text by Gerd Roos.

Hbk, 8.75 x 10.75 in. / 136 pgs / 33 color / 53 bw. | 3/1/2009 | Not available
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Giorgio de Chirico: The Changing Face of Metaphysical ArtGiorgio de Chirico: The Changing Face of Metaphysical Art

Published by Skira.
Edited with text by Victoria Noel-Johnson.

Giorgio de Chirico began to develop his Pittura Metafisica, or Metaphysical Painting, around 1911, painting brooding, dreamy scenes of depopulated landscapes filled with incongruous objects. But though this is the work de Chirico is best known for, his Metaphysical Painting period lasted only until 1919, and he remained prolific and experimental throughout his entire long life (trying out, for example, a Return to Order and a Rubens-inspired neobaroque style).

In Giorgio de Chirico: The Changing Face of Metaphysical Art, the first de Chirico overview in more than 20 years, scholar Victoria Noel-Johnson explores the artist’s entire, complex career and proposes a cohesive logic within its diversity. Organizing the artist’s works thematically and reading them through the Nietzschean philosophy to which the artist was famously devoted, Noel-Johnson argues that despite de Chirico’s many changes in style, technique, subject, composition and tone over the course of six decades, all of his works offer tangible visions of intangible philosophical concepts.

Richly illustrated, this volume features works drawn from the artist’s foundation and some of the most prestigious museums and collections in Italy, presented alongside a rich core of archival documents including letters and period photographs.

Italian artist, writer and proto-surrealist Giorgio de Chirico (1888–1978) began to develop his Pittura Metafisica after traveling in Milan, Florence and Turin between 1909 and 1911, where he was inspired by the bright Mediterranean light, sun-drenched piazzas and receding arcades—elements that would become essential visual motifs in his best-known works.



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De Chirico: The Song of LoveDe Chirico: The Song of Love

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Published by The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Text by Emily Braun.

The unexpected encounter of a rubber glove, a green ball and the head from the classical statue of the Apollo Belvedere gives rise to one of the most compelling paintings in the history of modernist art: Giorgio de Chirico’s “The Song of Love” (1914). De Chirico made his career in Paris in the years before World War I, combining his nostalgia for ancient Mediterranean culture with his fascination for the curios found in Parisian shop windows. Beloved by the Surrealists, this uncanny image exemplifies de Chirico’s radical “metaphysical” painting, which creates a disturbing sense of unreality, outside logical space and time, through the novel depiction of ordinary things. Emily Braun’s essay explores the sources behind the work’s enigmatic motifs, its influence on avant-garde painters and poets, and its continuing ability to captivate viewers as de Chirico intended, even a century after it was made.

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Giorgio de Chirico: Myth and ArchaelogyGiorgio de Chirico: Myth and Archaelogy

Published by Silvana Editoriale.
Text by Renato Miracco, Franco Calarota, Claudio Bisogniero, Dorothy Kosinski, Francesco Vezzoli.

The impact of the melancholy, metaphysical art of Giorgio de Chirico (1888–1978) had much to do with his unique ability to see antiquity anew, and to locate its props in mysterious, atemporal dreamscapes. De Chirico loaded his depictions of Greek and Roman statues and architecture with muted intimations of allegory, locking away their meanings in foreboding enigmas that were among the earliest articulations of the Surrealist project. Published for a 2013 exhibition at the Phillips Collection in Washington, DC, Giorgio de Chirico: Myth and Archaelogy gathers a selection of lesser-known early works by de Chirico--bronze sculptures and drawings that address the artist’s innovative use of myth (such as Dioscuri, the Argonauts and Ariadne), archaeological artifacts and historical events from the classical era.

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Giorgio de Chirico: A Metaphysical JourneyGiorgio de Chirico: A Metaphysical Journey

Paintings 1909-1973

Published by Walther König, Köln.
Text by Gerd Roos.

As a forerunner of Pittura metafisica (Metaphysical art), Greek-Italian painter Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) exerted a powerful influence on the subsequent development of Surrealism, New Objectivity and Magic Realism. For example, well before the Surrealists, de Chirico had discovered the power of the unconscious and the independent language of objects. Influenced by the symbolic painting of Arnold Böcklin and the dream pictures of Max Klinger, he created his provocative city views of deserted or statically enlivened squares. At the same time, he made ironically intellectual self-portraits that now form a large part of the artist's complete oeuvre. In this enlightening volume, curator and de Chirico scholar Gerd Roos discusses the artist's development as it is reflected in his times; his break with his innovative, seminal painting style; and his turn to a traditional, academic concept of art.

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Hebdomeros & Other WritingsHebdomeros & Other Writings

Published by Exact Change.
By Giorgio de Chirico. Introduction by John Ashbery. Translated by John Ashbery, Mark Polizzotti, et al.

The artist Giorgio de Chirico's novel, Hebdomeros is a dream-like book of situations and landscapes reminiscent of his paintings. In his introduction John Ashbery calls the book “the finest work of Surrealist fiction,” noting that de Chirico “invented for the occasion a new style and a new kind of novel ... his long run-on sentences, stitched together with semi-colons, allow a cinematic freedom of narration ... his language, like his painting, is invisible: a transparent but dense medium containing objects that are more real than reality.” Hebdomeros is accompanied by an appendix of previously untranslated or uncollected writings, including M. Dudron's Adventure, a second, fragmentary novel translated by John Ashbery.



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