Benzi Fabio - Giorgio De Chirico Life And Paintings - Hardcover

Binding: Hardcover
Description: This is the most comprehensive volume probing the life and work of the modern art icon Giorgio de Chirico. Giorgio de Chirico was one of the most controversial and consequential artists of the twentieth century a key member of the Paris avant - garde he was a major influence on other artists especially the nascent surrealists. His repertoire of motifs empty arcades elongated shadows mannequins trains created images of forlorn emptiness that became iconic. Artists inspired by de Chirico's early work include Yves Tanguy Pablo Picasso Max Ernst Salvador Dal and Ren Magritte. His influence also extended beyond painting and included writers and poets Guillaume Apollinaire Andr Breton John Ashbery and Sylvia Plath filmmakers Jacques Pr vert and Michelangelo Antonioni and even David Bowie who admired de Chirico's genderless tailors dummies that inspired his music videos. After the Great War he turned toward neoclassicism and bitterly fell out with the surrealists and the mainstream modernist movement in the process becoming an outspoken outsider of the art world. This in - depth examination of the artist's life and work by the world's foremost de Chirico authority is based on new archival research and offers a fresh view of de Chirico's relationship with surrealism fascism forgery and the European avant - gardes.
Title: Giorgio De Chirico Life And Paintings
Author(s): Benzi Fabio
Publisher: Rizzoli International Publications
Barcode: 9780847872381
Pages: 555 Pages, 60 Illustrations
Publication Date: 3/28/2023
Category: Biography: General