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 ...
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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.
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Very Good, Good++ 4TO, B/W, Color Ills, Hardcover. Hardcover in dust jacket. Maroon cloth boards with title in white on spine. Light bumping. Rear board scuffed. Text pages are clean. Color illustrated dust jacket has edge wear and rubbing. Rear cover noticeably scuffed. Looks good in new protective mylar. Always carefully wrapped and shipped in cardboard boxes to protect your purchase.
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Collectable-Very Good Condition in Good jacket. 9780300176599. Art and Design. VG+/Good+ 1st ed 2014 Yale hardback, unclipped DJ. Small tears and wear around top of jacket spine only, all else near fine bright and unmarked. Size: 8.5 x 1.25 x 11.25 inches. 352 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: 1-2 kilos. Category: Art & Design; Art and Design; The Arts; The Arts: treatments and subjects; ISBN: 0300176597. ISBN/EAN: 9780300176599. Dewey Code: 759.5. The book is available to view in-person at our Cambridge hub. The photos provided are of the actual book for sale, further condition-specific photos may be arranged upon request. Inventory No: 088974.
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