De
Chirico (Great Modern Master Series) Giorgio De Chirico, Jose Maria Faerna (Editor)
The warm colors and familiar icons in the paintings of Giorgio de Chirico
are deceptively soothing. The varying lines of perspective, blurring of
indoor and outdoor space, and the coupling of ancient images with turn-of-the-century
industry are both vaguely familiar and certainly disconcerting, evocative
of being lost in a city or wandering through a stranger's home. Vacant
plazas, shadowy arcades, and lonely statues are the eerie edges of dreams
that are lost in the morning. Even de Chirico's most standard still lifes
are ambient and consuming. Amazon.com Hardcover / Published 1995
De Chirico : The Metaphysical Period, 1888-1919 Paolo Baldacci, Jeffrey Jennings (Translator)
The warm colors and familiar icons in the paintings of Giorgio de Chirico
are deceptively soothing. The varying lines of perspective, blurring of
indoor and outdoor space, and the coupling of ancient images with turn-of-the-century
industry are both vaguely familiar and certainly disconcerting, evocative
of being lost in a city or wandering through a stranger's home. Vacant
plazas, shadowy arcades, and lonely statues are the eerie edges of dreams
that are lost in the morning. Even de Chirico's most standard still lifes
are ambient and consuming.
De Chirico's complete early work, that of his "metaphysical period,"
is gathered in this generously sized volume from Bulfinch Press. The work
from museums and private collections from around the world illustrates
critical exposition as well as exhaustive documentation (three pages of
notes for a 20-page chapter) of de Chirico's training and production. The
catalog overflows with color entries and black-and-white supplementary
illustrations of family, friends, places, influential works, and drawing
studies that contributed to the evolution of the painter and his masterpieces.
The book's author, Paolo Baldacci, writes in his introduction that "practically
all of the paintings executed from 1908-09 to the summer of 1914 are fundamental
for understanding the various phases of de Chirico's aesthetic development.
The works of these crucial years, rich in symbolism and dense with thought,
cast in pictorial form a vast conception of the world, of life, and of
art drawn from de Chirico's intensive reading of Nietzsche, Leopardi, Schopenhauer,
and Heraclitus." --Manine Golden - Amazon.com
Hardcover: 440 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 1.50 x
13.75 x 11.50
Publisher: Bulfinch Press; (May 1998)
ASIN: 0821224999
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