Main entry:

Baldacci, Paolo, author.

Title & Author:

De Chirico : the metaphysical period, 1888-1919 / Paolo Baldacci ; [translation, Jeffrey Jennings].

Edition:

First North American edition.

Publication:

Boston : Little, Brown, 1997.
©1997

Description:

443 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 34 cm

Notes:
"A Bulfinch Press book."
Includes statements by De Chirico.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-439).
The Formulation of a Mode of Thought July 1888-July 1911. Volos and Athens, 1888-1906. Earthly Eternity. Munich, 1906-1909. The Crises of Romanticism. Milan, 1909. Revelation and Enigma. Florence, 1910-1911. Architecture and A Theory of Dreams -- The Birth of an Opus July 1911-May 1915. Paris, 1911-1912. The Symbolic Language of the Modern Myth. Paris, 1913. From the Encounter with Apollinaire to the "Solitude of Signs" Paris, 1914. An Art for the Initiated. Paris, Autumn 1914-May 1915. Mannequins and Interiors. A Mystical Art -- The Italian Illusion June 1915-February 1919. Ferrara, 1915-1916. The Birth of a Cultural Strategy. Ferrara, 1917. A Metaphysical Movement? Ferrara and Rome, 1918-1919. A Losing Battle -- App. 1. A Work from 1909 Reelaborated in a Subsequent Period -- App. 2. Metaphysical Paintings after 1919 -- App. 3. Rejected Works -- App. 4. Paintings that Remained in the Paris Studio -- Catalogue of the Drawings. Autumn 1909-February 1919 -- Exhibitions from 1912 to 1940 where Works from the Metaphysical Period were Shown.
Translated from Italian.
Dust jacket.

Summary:

"De Chirico: The Metaphysical Period is the most authoritative source on the formative years and period of greatest achievement in the career of Giorgio de Chirico, one of the masters of twentieth-century art." "Beginning around 1909, Giorgio de Chirico projected in his paintings an irrational, dreamlike world of empty classical cityscapes populated by statues, shadows, and familiar objects isolated or mysteriously juxtaposed. This Metaphysical Painting, as he called it, was seized on by the Surrealists in the 1920s and has continued to haunt our imagination. Paolo Baldacci's monograph reveals the many biographical elements of de Chirico's mysterious work, devoting particular attention to his most critically acclaimed period, 1909-19."--BOOK JACKET.

ISBN:

0821224999
9780821224991

Subject:

De Chirico, Giorgio, 1888-1978 Criticism and interpretation.
De Chirico, Giorgio, 1888-1978 Aesthetics.
De Chirico, Giorgio, 1888-1978 Catalogs.
De Chirico, Giorgio, 1888-1978.
De Chirico, Giorgio 1888-1978
De Chirico, Giorgio.
Metaphysical school (Art movement) Italy.
Peinture métaphysique (Mouvement artistique) Italie.
Aesthetics
Metaphysical school (Art movement)
Italy

Form/genre:

Catalog
Biography
Biographies.
Catalogs.
Quotations (texts)
catalogs (documents)
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Catalogues.

Added entries:

De Chirico, Giorgio, 1888-1978.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 226151
Call No.: ND37.D293 B3 1997
Status: Available