The Enigma Of Giorgio De Chirico

Author : Margaret Crosland
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Enigma of Giorgio de Chirico written by Margaret Crosland and published by Peter Owen Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978) was best known for his metaphysical paintings, but he also wrote poems, articles about art, an autobiography, and the first surrealist novel. Even more mysterious than the paintings, is the man himself: secretive, self-centered and contradictory, supercritical, ironic, and humorless, yet creative in ways he probably hardly understood. He did not share the Surrealists' overt preoccupation with the erotic, but was obsessed with memories of ancient mythology, 19th century German philosophy, metaphysics, and the secrets of creativity. With these obsessions, he tried, unconsciously, to solve the problems of his own sexuality which he concealed within. A loner, who never formally aligned himself with the Surrealists, or any other artistic movement, he produced several thousand works of art, with many changes of style. These were praised by Guillaume Apollinaire, Andre Breton, Max Ernst, and paul Eluard. He has remained one of the most baffling and memorable of those associated with the Surrealists.

Author : Keala Jewell
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 9780271047355
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Art of Enigma written by Keala Jewell and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biography of these artist and writer brothers that places them within the context of myth, history, and Italian culture politics.

Author : V. S. Naipaul
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307744035
Total Pages : 448 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Enigma of Arrival written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-04-20 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nobel Prize-winning author distills his wide experience of countries and peoples into a moving account of the rites of passage endured by all people and all communities undergoing change or decay. • "Naipaul's finest work." —Chicago Tribune "A subtly incisive self-reckoning." —The Washington Post Book World The story of a writer’s singular journey – from one place to another, and from one state of mind to another. At the midpoint of the century, the narrator leaves the British colony of Trinidad and comes to the ancient countryside of England. And from within the story of this journey – of departure and arrival, alienation and familiarity, home and homelessness – the writer reveals how, cut off from his “first” life in Trinidad, he enters a “second childhood of seeing and learning.” Clearly autobiographical, yet woven through with remarkable invention, The Enigma of Arrival is as rich and complex as any novel we have had from this exceptional writer. "The conclusion is both heart-breaking and bracing: the only antidote to destruction—of dreams, of reality—is remembering. As eloquently as anyone now writing, Naipaul remembers." —Time "Far and away the most curious novel I've read in a long time, and maybe the most hypnotic book I've ever read." —St. Petersburg Times

Author : Philip Guston
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780974510828
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Enigma Variations written by Philip Guston and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jerry Caruana
Publisher : Vantage Press, Inc
ISBN 13 : 9780533157488
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Case of Giorgio de Chirico written by Jerry Caruana and published by Vantage Press, Inc. This book was released on 2007 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A scholarly and well-researched text presenting two essays intended to clarify de Chiricos life and its many ups and downs. Filled with thoughtful analysis and thought-provoking sentiments, The Case of Giorgio de Chirico will provide art lovers with new insights and answers on this enigmatic artist and his career.

Author : Giorgio De Chirico
Publisher : AJ Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 152 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hebdomeros written by Giorgio De Chirico and published by AJ Publishing Company. This book was released on 1988 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Matthew Gale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Enigma of Fatality written by Matthew Gale and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paolo Baldacci
Publisher : Bulfinch Press
ISBN 13 : 9780821224991
Total Pages : 443 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book De Chirico written by Paolo Baldacci and published by Bulfinch Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 443 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Ara H. Merjian
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780300176599
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City written by Ara H. Merjian and published by . This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Wieland Schmied
Publisher : Prestel Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Giorgio de Chirico written by Wieland Schmied and published by Prestel Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the art of Giorgio de Chirico, inventor of a symbolic style which had a strong influence on 20th-century art, this text focuses on the artist's mysterious representations of the human form.