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.
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.
The works of Giorgio de Chirico are among some of the most iconic in the panorama of 20th century Italian art, but few people are aware of the vast literary heritage left by the artist. In an unprecedented exhibition, at its London gallery, Tornabuoni Art is showing over 25 works that cover the entire career of the artist, together with original manuscripts that offer an unknown vision of Giorgio de Chirico and his artistic world. This book, edited by Katherine Robinson, documents the important exhibition through a rich collection of iconographic works, critiques written by modern masters, his contemporaries, some love letters, and also poetry. Visitors will be able to discover a totally new reading of di Chirico?s works through words written by his own hand. 0The exhibition includes nine sections, each illustrating a different subject explored by the artist during his career: Piazzas of Italy, Metaphysical Interiors, Portraits and Self-portraits, Still life studies, Mannequins, Horses and Cavaliers, Gladiators, Mythology, and mysterious Bathers in pools. 0The catalogue also proposes an important and hitherto unpublished contribution by Gavin Parkinson, Senior Lecturer at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.0A section of bio-bibliographic writings completes the publication. 00Exhibition: Tornabuoni Art, London, UK (04.10.2017 - 12.01.2018).
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.
This book opens with the de Chirico Foundation's President Paolo Picozza discussing the current state of scholarship on the de Chirico and the many initiatives launched in the continuing celebrations for the 40th anniversary of the Master's death. The editorial is followed by Fabio Benzi's article, which tracks down influence on young de Chirico of the vibrant cultural milieu of the Greek capital, especially for his reading of Nietzsche. German culture returns in Ara H. Merjian's dense essay, and explores how de Chirico's Metaphysical imagery, contributed to profoundly influencing politicized representational strategies between the World Wars. Unpublished archival materials (here published in English) is at the core of Victoria Noel-Johnson's study documenting in great detail works by de Chirico in the collection of the Belgian collector and Surrealist art patron, René Gaffé. Giorgia Chierici's investigation into the archival sources discovered in the Morgan Archives in New York and the sales records kept at the MoMA not only allows us to identify the works on display in de Chirico's first American exhibition at the Valentine gallery, but also helps trace down other works gravitating around that venue and its merchants-owners: Valentine Dudensing and Pierre Matisse. The focus of Roberta Di Nicola's essay is a philosophical reading of de Chirico's work as theatrical set designer for D'Annunzio's pastoral tragedy The Daughter of Iorio while Maurice Owens and Russell Richards, have put forward an interpretation of Giorgio de Chirico's novel Ebdòmero.
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