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Chirico, Giorgio De - jōrˈjō dā kēˈrēkō, 1888–1978, Italian painter, b. Vólos, Greece. Chirico developed his enigmatic vision in Munich and Italy and from 1911 to 1915 he worked and exhibited in Paris. His powerful, disturbing paintings employ steep perspective, mannequin figures, empty space, and forms used out of context to


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    Giorgio de Chirico » Read Now

    by James Thrall Soby. 267 pgs.

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    ...Giorgio de Chirico Giorgio de Chirico, Rome, October 1949. Herbert List photograph Giorgio de Chirico BY JAMES THRALL SOBY THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART NEW YORK...
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    On Modern American Art: Selected Essays ("De Chirico's Long American Shadow" begins on p. 42) » Read Now

    by Robert Rosenblum. 386 pgs.

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    Robert Rosenblum is a critic, curator and art historian, whose writings helped establish the reputations of Roy Lichtenstein, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol. In this collection he explores the meanings, movements and paradoxes of 20th-century American art.
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    Modern Italian Painting: From Futurism to the Present Day ("Metaphysical Painting" begins on p. 38) » Read Now

    by Guido Ballo. 215 pgs.

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    ...it was not until 1919 that Giorgio De Chirico published his basic concepts...spring from deep inner necessity. Giorgio De Chirico Piazza dItalia De Chiricos...Meditazione...
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    Surrealism and the Sacred: Power, Eros, and the Occult in Modern Art (Chap. 8 "And What Shall I Worship Save the Enigma?") » Read Now

    by Celia Rabinovitch. 274 pgs.

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    An interpretation of the personalities, historical forces and intellectual paradigms that created Surrealist art, this work traces the conflict between the secular and sacred forces from prehistory to the 20th century.
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    Masters of Modern Art (Discussion of Giorgio de Chirico begins on p. 128) » Read Now

    by Alfred H. Barr Jr. 239 pgs.

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    ...recalls in his Souvenirs dun marchand de tableaux a conversation with Rousseau...Bagneux Cemetery. On it Brancusi and Ortiz de Zarate engraved the Douaniers...
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    A Concise History of Modern Painting (Chap. Four "Futurism, Dada, Surrealism") » Read Now

    by Herbert Read. 376 pgs.

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    ...art. But it is also the explanation of all historical GIORGIO DE CHIRICO Place dItalie. 1912 development in art, and an indication...black and white for La Galleria. 1912...
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    A Dictionary of Modern Painting ("Chirico, Giorgio de" begins on p. 59) » Read Now

    by Carlton Lake, Robert Maillard. 330 pgs.

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    ...Laurencin , and La Tentation de la Bergere decor and costumes...with decor and costumes by Chirico. Both of them, the latter in...Pirandello, Jean Hugo, Chirico, Irene...
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    The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists ("Chirico, Giorgio de ( 1888-1978)" begins on p. 104) » Read Now

    by Ian Chilvers. 584 pgs.

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    The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists, Second Edition is an authoritative and up-to-date guide to Western art from Ancient Greece to the present day. It offers over two thousand entries on painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts, covering not only artists and their work, but also...
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    A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art ("Chirico, Giorgio de (1888-1978)" begins on p. 123) » Read Now

    by Ian Chilvers. 686 pgs.

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    From Renoir and Picasso to Red Grooms and Guerrilla Girls, this is the most useful reference work on twentieth-century art available in a one volume. Compiled by Ian Chilvers, the editor of The Oxford Dictionary of Art, it is both authoritative and accessible, with generous use of anecdote and clear...
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