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Giorgio de Chirico and the Metaphysical City
Ara H. Merjian
其他書名
Nietzsche, Modernism, Paris
出版Yale University Press, 2014
主題Art / Criticism & TheoryArt / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945)Art / Individual Artists / Monographs
ISBN03001765979780300176599
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=3Z-8lAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋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.