Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City
Nietzsche, Modernism, Paris
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Word Count
88,000 words, Guess
Page Count
352 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100300176597
- ISBN-139780300176599
- Library of Congress Control Number2012048816
- OCLC Control Number821206815
- Better World Books9780300176599
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- Open LibraryOL28522883M
Classifications
- LCCND623.C56M47 2014
- LCCND623.C56 M47 2014
Description
For the artist Giorgio de Chirico (1888-1978), a founder of the metaphysical art movement, the year 1914 marked a momentous and pivotal time in his aesthetic production. He completed most of his well-known paintings of metaphysical cityscapes that year, just before the advent of World War I, while living in Paris. These paintings emerged within the context of the city's avant-garde circles, and they ultimately redirected the course of modernist painting. Ara H. Merjian's text considers the artist's representation of architectural space in relation to his sustained engagement with the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and addresses why the painter's 'Nietzschean method' takes architecture as its means and metaphor, a physical premise for metaphysical revelation.
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